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Author:

Klapper, Melissa R.

Title:

Jewish girls coming of age in America, 1860-1920 / Melissa R. Klapper.

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

x, 310 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Jewish girls--United States--Social conditions--19th century.
Jewish girls--United States--Social conditions--20th century.
Jewish girls--Education--United States.
Jewish girls--United States--Social life and customs--19th century.
Jewish girls--United States--Social life and customs--20th century.
Jewish religious education of girls--United States.
Jewish teenagers--United States--Social life and customs--19th century.
Jewish teenagers--United States--Social life and customs--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-294) and index.

Contents:

1. "Any other girls in this whole world like myself": Jewish girls and adolescence in America -- 2. "Unless I got more education": Jewish girls and the problem of education in turn-of-the-century America -- 3. "Education in the broadest sense": alternative forms of education for working-class girls -- 4. "A perfect Jew and a perfect American": the religious education of Jewish girls -- 5. "Such a world of pleasure": adolescent Jewish girls and American youth culture.

ISBN:

9780814747803 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814747809 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)55940634
(OCoLC)56912290

LCCN:

2004015012

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)