Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History: The Roles and Representation of Women 0295974257, 9780295974255, 0295974265, 9780295806822

Paula Hyman broadens and revises earlier analyses of Jewish assimilation, which depicted 'the Jews' as though

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Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History: The Roles and Representation of Women
0295974257, 9780295974255, 0295974265, 9780295806822

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Paula E. Hyman

Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Paradoxes of Assimilation
2. Seductive Secularization
3. America, Freedom, and Assimilation
4. The Sexual Politics of Jewish Identity
Bibliography
Index

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