Reviewed by Hadassa Kosak | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.2

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*Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail: A History in the American West.* By Jeanne E. Abrams. New York: New York University Press, 2006. vii + 279 pp. Photos, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.00 (cloth).
Nothing stirs my imagination like the 1910 images of a young family on horseback enjoying the sight of Seven Falls, Colorado, or a solid row of matronsfounders of the Denver Jewish Sheltering Home. These, among others, depict Jewish women who made their lives and fortunes in the West in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, whose history is here related by Jeanne Abrams.	1
We are more familiar with their northeastern garment-worker counterparts; Jewish women of the American West have until now been relatively unexplored subjects of scholarship. Abrams is first to examine them within their geographical and intergenerational totality. In tracing the life paths of Jewish women, Abrams demonstrates the opportunities available for social and economic advancement in the West. Social mobility, combined with a distinctive Jewish cultural ethos, enabled Jewish women to redefine the private and public spheres and, ultimately, to acquire social and political rights of citizenship.	. . .

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