LEADER 03821nam 22007095 450 001 9910855390003321 005 20250808085259.0 010 $a9783031499418 010 $a3031499417 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-49941-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31318934 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31318934 035 $a(CKB)31889906900041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-49941-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)9931889906900041 100 $a20240502d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWords to the Wives $eThe Yiddish Press, Immigrant Women, and Jewish-American Identity /$fby Shelby Shapiro 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (251 pages) 225 1 $aNew Directions in Book History,$x2634-6125 311 08$a9783031499401 311 08$a3031499409 327 $a1 Introduction -- 2 From the East Side--Center of the Yiddish Press -- 3 On the Women's Pages--Assimilation and Americanization -- 4 As American Women: In America--On Main Street -- 5 As Jewish-American Women on the Jewish Street -- 6 The Feminization of Jewish Holidays -- 7 Trying on a New Identity: Clothes, Coiffures, Cosmetics -- 8 Conclusion. 330 $aThis book looks at how the Yiddish press sought to create Jewish-American identities for immigrant women. Shelby Shapiro focuses on two women?s magazines and the women?s pages in three daily newspapers, from 1913, when the first Yiddish women?s magazine appeared, until 1925, when the Immigration Act of 1924 took effect. Shapiro demonstrates how newspaper editors and publishers sought to shape identity in line with their own religious or political tendencies in this new environment, where immigrants faced a broad horizon of possibilities for shaping or reshaping their identities in the face of new possibilities and constraints. External constraints included the economic situation of the immigrants, varying degrees of antisemitism within American society, while internal constraints included the variable power of traditions and beliefs brought with them from the Old World. Words to the Wives studies how publications sought to shape the direction of Eastern European Jewish immigrant women's acculturation. Shelby Shapiro serves as General Editor of The Independent Scholar and the journal of the National Coalition of Independent Scholars. His interest areas include the Yiddish press, American history, Anarchism, the labor movement, print culture, jazz and blues. He served as Associate Editor of Connecticut State Records from 2012-2021. 410 0$aNew Directions in Book History,$x2634-6125 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBooks$xHistory 606 $aPrinting 606 $aPublishers and publishing 606 $aJournalism 606 $aJudaism and culture 606 $aLiterary History 606 $aHistory of the Book 606 $aPrinting and Publishing 606 $aNews Journalism 606 $aJewish Cultural Studies 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBooks$xHistory. 615 0$aPrinting. 615 0$aPublishers and publishing. 615 0$aJournalism. 615 0$aJudaism and culture. 615 14$aLiterary History. 615 24$aHistory of the Book. 615 24$aPrinting and Publishing. 615 24$aNews Journalism. 615 24$aJewish Cultural Studies. 676 $a070.484 700 $aShapiro$b Shelby$01738150 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910855390003321 996 $aWords to the Wives$94160147 997 $aUNINA