Overview
- Examines how Yiddish publications sought to develop Jewish-American identities for immigrant women
- Highlights Americanization process for Jewish immigrant women
- Studies the Yiddish press between 1913 and 1925
Part of the book series: New Directions in Book History (NDBH)
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Keywords
- Yiddish press
- women's studies
- identity formation
- ethnicity
- Literature, Gender and Sexuality
- book history
- print culture
- Jewish studies
About this book
​This book looks at how the Yiddish press sought to create Jewish-American identities for immigrant women. Shelby Shapiro focuses on two women’s magazines and the women’s pages in three daily newspapers, from 1913, when the first Yiddish women’s magazine appeared, until 1925, when the Immigration Act of 1924 took effect. Shapiro demonstrates how newspaper editors and publishers sought to shape identity in line with their own religious or political tendencies in this new environment, where immigrants faced a broad horizon of possibilities for shaping or reshaping their identities in the face of new possibilities and constraints. External constraints included the economic situation of the immigrants, varying degrees of antisemitism within American society, while internal constraints included the variable power of traditions and beliefs brought with them from the Old World. Words to the Wives studies how publications sought to shape the direction of Eastern European Jewish immigrant women's acculturation.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Shelby Shapiro serves as General Editor of The Independent Scholar and the journal of the National Coalition of Independent Scholars. His interest areas include the Yiddish press, American history, Anarchism, the labor movement, print culture, jazz and blues. He served as Associate Editor of Connecticut State Records from 2012-2021.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Words to the Wives
Book Subtitle: The Yiddish Press, Immigrant Women, and Jewish-American Identity
Authors: Shelby Shapiro
Series Title: New Directions in Book History
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49940-1Due: 20 June 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49943-2Due: 20 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-49941-8Due: 20 June 2024
Series ISSN: 2634-6117
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6125
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 245
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations