Jewish girls coming of age in America, 1860-1920 [electronic resource] / Melissa R. Klapper.
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TextPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2005.Description: x, 310 p. : illSubject(s): - 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
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- E184.36.S65 K53 2005eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-294) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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