Aandacht voor de geschiedenis van vrouwen en jodendom in de Verenigde Staten sinds 1654, het jaar waarin de eerste joodse vluchtelingen van Recife in Amerika aankwamen.
A collection of classic and recent essays in American Jewish women's history. It covers colonial times to the present to illuminate American Jewish women's historical diversity. It shows women shaping Judaism and their American Jewish communities as they engaged in volunteer activities and political crusades, battled stereotypes, and constructed relationships with their Christian neighbours.