The Rebellion of the Daughters: Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia
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The Rebellion of the Daughters: Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia
By (Author) Rachel Manekin
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
9th November 2020
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
European history
Gender studies: women and girls
305.488924043862
Physical Properties
Hardback
304
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
Description
An in-depth exploration of the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox homes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries The Rebellion of the Daughters investigates the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Reviews
"Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Womens Studies"
Author Bio
Rachel Manekin is associate professor of Jewish studies at the University of Maryland. She is the author of The Jews of Galicia and the Austrian Constitution: The Beginning of Modern Jewish Politics.
