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

By: Klapper, Melissa RContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2005Description: 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 centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.242/2/089924073 LOC classification: E184.36.S65 | K53 2005Online resources: Click to View
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.
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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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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