Ebook: The girls : Jewish women of Brownsville, Brooklyn, 1940-1995
Author: Ford Carole Bell
- Tags: Jewish women -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century, Jewish women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews, Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century, Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews, Brownsville (New York N Y ) -- Biography, HISTORY -- State & Local, HISTORY -- State & Local -- General, Jewish women, Jews, New York (State) -- New York, New York (State) -- New York -- Brownsville
- Series: SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture.
- Year: 2000
- Publisher: State University of New York Press
- City: Albany, N.Y., Brownsville (New York, N.Y.), New York (State)--New York., New York (State)--New York-
- Language: English
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"This book tells the stories of the Jewish women who came of age in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in the 1940s and 1950s. Through in-depth interviews with more than forty women, Carole Bell Ford explores the choices these women made and the boundaries within which they made them, offering fresh insights into the culture and values of Jewish women in the postwar period. Not content to remain in the past, The Girls is also a Read more...