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Author Klapper, Melissa R.

Title Jewish girls coming of age in America, 1860-1920 [electronic resource] / Melissa R. Klapper.

Imprint New York : New York University Press, c2005.

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Description x, 310 p. : ill.
Bibliography 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0814747809 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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