Paula Hyman broadens and revises earlier analyses of Jewish assimilation, which depicted "the Jews" as though they were all men, by focusing on women and the domestic as well as the public realms. Surveying Jewish accommodations to new conditions in Europe and the United States in the years between [...]
European Jews achieved civil emancipation during the 19th century, becoming equal citizens with all the rights and responsibilities of their Gentile compatriots. This book looks at the effects of this freedom on a traditional Jewish population largely untouched by secular culture.[...]