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Princess or prisoner? : Jewish women in Jerusalem, 1840-1914 / Margalit Shilo ; translated by David Louvish.

Publication | Library Call Number: HQ1728.5 .S5413 2005

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Uniform Title: Nesikhah o shevuyah? English
Variant Title: Jewish women in Jerusalem, 1840-1914
Series: Brandeis series on Jewish women
Brandeis series on Jewish women.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Shilo, Margalit.
Published: Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press ; Hanover : Published by University Press of New England, c2005
Locale: Jerusalem
Language: English
External Link: Table of contents
Edition: 1st ed

Physical Description: xxviii, 330 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Contents: The female experience of immigration
Princess or captive? : marriage as a female experience
Women at home
Women in the public sphere : religious, economic, and philanthropic involvement
Scholarship, illiteracy, and educational revolution
On the margins of society : poverty, widowhood, husband desertion, prostitution, missionary efforts
Epilogue : the female experience in Jerusalem: honing historical-cultural insights.
Other Authors/Editors: Louvish, David.
ISBN: 158465483X
1584654848 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

The female experience of immigration -- Princess or captive? : marriage as a female experience -- Women at home -- Women in the public sphere : religious, economic, and philanthropic involvement -- Scholarship, illiteracy, and educational revolution -- On the margins of society : poverty, widowhood, husband desertion, prostitution, missionary efforts -- Epilogue : the female experience in Jerusalem: honing historical-cultural insights.
Subjects: Jewish women--Jerusalem--History--19th century.
Jewish women--Jerusalem--History--20th century.
Jewish women--Jerusalem--Social conditions--19th century.
Jewish women--Education--Jerusalem.
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