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Fighting to become Americans: assimilation and the trouble between Jewish women and Jewish men

Riv-Ellen Prell c1999 © Beacon Press
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  • 9780807036334 (paper)
  • 9780807036327 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Jewish Studies
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  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • Chapter One Ghetto Girls and Jewish Immigrant Desire (page 21)
  • Chapter Two Marriage Making Americans (page 58)
  • Chapter Three Consuming Love: Marriage and Middle-Class Aspirations (page 88)
  • Chapter Four Fading Feuds: The Eerie Silence of the War Years (page 124)
  • Chapter Five Strangers in Paradise: The Devouring Jewish Mother (page 142)
  • Chapter Six The Jewish American Princess: Detachable Ethnicity, Gender Ambiguity and Middle-Class Anxiety (page 177)
  • Chapter Seven Talking Back through Counter-Representations (page 209)
  • Appendix A Note on the American Jewish Press as a Source 1897-1930 (page 246)
  • Notes (page 253)
  • Acknowledgments (page 309)
  • Index (page 314)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AJS 105.5 (Mar. 2000): 1482-1484 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3003779
WRB 16.9 (Jun. 1999): 22-23 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4023285
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