The Jewish Woman in America - 1977 -C. Baum/P.Hyman/S.Michel

Charlotte Baum/Paula Hyman/Sonya Michel - The Jewish Woman in America - New York, New American Library Inc./Plume Book, 1977 - 1st edition - XIII+290+4p.(pub.) - Softcover: illustrated paper binding with straight spine - 13.50x20.20cm - Good copy: wear and use to the cover, endpapers heavily discoloured, text block slightly discoloured at the margins.

•      Charlotte Arpadi Baum (1922-1991) was a Jewish American author.
•      Paula Hyman (1946–2011) was an American social historian who served as the Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University.
•      Sonya Michel is an American historian. She is Professor Emerita at the Department History, University of Maryland and taught at numerous other leading universities.
•      Plot : The Jewish Woman in America, “not an exhaustive, definitive history of all Jewish women in America,” but “a schematic approach to certain problems as we’ve defined them,” suffers, as this description by the authors suggests, from methodological imprecision. Arranged chronologically, the book devotes individual chapters to the German Jewish woman in America; to the East European Jewish woman in the old country, in America, and in the labor movement; to the differences between uptown and down-town women; and then, in an unexplained shift of focus, to the changing image of the Jewish woman in American Jewish literature over the past forty years and today. (Source: amazon)

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