Paula Hyman

Writing their nations : the tradition of nineteenth-century American Jewish women writers

Acknowledgments I. Introducing the Tradition II. Mythic Ideals of American III. The Words and Worlds of Emma Lazarus IV. American and Jewish Womanhood V. American and Jewish Nationalities VI. American Jewish Women Themselves Notes Bibliography Index

My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland

Bialystok-Warsaw A Kheder for Girls Daughters of Zion Winds of Revolution Family Tragedies Winds of War To the Land of Israel Organizing Polish Jewish Women Russian Journey Aliyah

Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe

With the help of over one hundred illustrations spanning three centuries, Richard Cohen investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history. The interaction of Jews with the visual arts takes place, as Cohen says, in a vast gallery of prints, portraits, books, synagogue architecture, ceremonial art, modern Jewish painting and sculpture, political broadsides, monuments, medals, and memorabilia. Pointing to recent scholarship that overturns the stereotype of Jews as people of the text, unconcerned with the visual, Cohen shows how the coming of the modern period expanded the relationship of Jews to the visual realm far beyond the religious context. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the study and collecting of Jewish art became a legitimate and even passionate pursuit, and signaled the entry of Jews into the art world as painters, collectors, and dealers.