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My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman – Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland: The Modern Jewish Experience

Autor Puah Rakovsky, Paula Hyman, Barbara Harshav
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 oct 2003
Professional educator, Zionist activist, and feminist leader--Puah Rakovsky (1865-1955) was born under the Russian Empire and died in the independent country of Israel. No mere bystander to history, Rakovsky was an activist who assumed leadership roles in the public arenas of education and politics, founding the first Jewish girls’ school in Warsaw and a national Jewish women’s organization in 1920s Poland. In her memoir Rakovsky reflects on the position of Jewish women in her time and gives her personal and political perspective on central events of modern Jewish history from her childhood until her emigration to the Land of Israel in 1935.In this striking autobiography, published originally in Yiddish in 1954, Puah Rakovsky (1865-1955) tells of her experiences as a Jewish woman in late 19th- and early 20th-century Poland who broke with her traditional upbringing to become a professional educator, Zionist activist, and feminist leader. Her passionate account offers unprecedented entrée into the life experience of East European Jewry in a period of massive social change. Born into a rabbinic family in Bialystok, Rakovsky witnessed the flourishing of a variety of radical political movements, the birth of Zionism, and the devastation of World War I. No mere bystander, she assumed leadership roles in the public arenas of education and politics: she founded a pioneering Jewish girls' school in Warsaw and a national Jewish women's organization in 1920s Poland. In her memoir Rakovsky reflects on the position of Jewish women in her time and gives her personal and political perspective on central events of modern Jewish history from her childhood until her emigration to the Land of Israel in 1935.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253215642
ISBN-10: 0253215641
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 1 b&w photo, 1 map
Dimensiuni: 157 x 233 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:2
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
Seria The Modern Jewish Experience


Cuprins

Table of Contents:
Foreword
A Note on Translation
Map
Introduction
1. Bialystok - Warsaw
2. A Kheyder for Girls
3. Daughters of Zion
4. Winds of Revolution
5. Family Tragedies
6. Winds of War
7. To the Land of Israel
8. Organizing Polish Jewish Women
9. Russian Journey
10. Aliyah
Index

Recenzii

"Hers is a venturesome, courageous story, with Zionist history woven into its very fiber and nerves." Hadassah Magazine"Rakovsky's descriptions of Jewish women's political and educational options alongside the details of individual women's lives are vital to understanding this period of East European Jewish history. As Hyman promises, the memoir does read like a novel." Russian Review

Notă biografică

Paula E. Hyman is the Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University.

Barbara Harshav's translations include A Surplus of Memory by Yitzhak Zuckerman.


Descriere

The compelling memoir of a Polish-Jewish woman who was an educator, Zionist activist, and feminist leader