- Summary
- "'Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace' explores the social and political activism of American Jewish women from approximately 1890 through World War II. Written in an engaging style, the book demonstrates that no history of the suffrage, birth control, or peace movements in the United States is complete without analyzing the impact of Jewish women's presence. The volume is based on years of extensive primary-source research in more than a dozen archives and hundreds of published primary sources, many of which have previously never been seen. Voluminous personal papers and institutional records paint a vivid picture of a world in which both middle-class and working-class American Jewish women were consistently and publicly engaged in all the major issues of their day and worked closely with their non-Jewish counterparts on behalf of activist causes"--Page 4 of cover.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Klapper, Melissa R., author.
- Published
- New York : New York University Press, 2014
- Locale
- United States
- Contents
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"We Jewish women should be especially interested in our new citizenship" : American Jewish women and the Suffrage Movement
"I started to get smart, not to have so many children" : The American Jewish community and the early years of the birth control movement
"We united with our sisters of other faiths in petitioning for peace" : Jewish women, peace activism, and acculturation
"They have been the pioneers" : American Jewish women and the mainstreaming of birth control
"Where the yellow star is" : American Jewish women, the peace movement, and Jewish identity during the 1930s and World War II.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-268) and index.
"We Jewish women should be especially interested in our new citizenship" : American Jewish women and the Suffrage Movement -- "I started to get smart, not to have so many children" : The American Jewish community and the early years of the birth control movement -- "We united with our sisters of other faiths in petitioning for peace" : Jewish women, peace activism, and acculturation -- "They have been the pioneers" : American Jewish women and the mainstreaming of birth control -- "Where the yellow star is" : American Jewish women, the peace movement, and Jewish identity during the 1930s and World War II.
