| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Book Review

Beyond the Synagogue Gallery: Finding a Place for Women in American Judaism. By Karla Goldman. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. xii, 275 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-00221-0.)

As a teacher of men and women hoping to be ordained as rabbis, Karla Goldman is in a strategic position at Hebrew Union College. Not only is she able to inform her students about how women in nineteenth-century America found a place in the synagogue and gained public recognition of their spiritual identity, she can also help heighten expectations for an extension of that process: the full inclusion of women as equals in authentic Jewish worship and ritual experience. 1

Some of Goldman's book, recounting the emergence of new and more equal roles for American Jewish women in public worship, is familiar, thanks to the work of Michael Meyer and Paula Hyman, among others. But Goldman tells the story in a fresh way, with convincing insights in regard to the "quest for respectability." If Jews were to achieve the social and religious identities they associated with secure status in the United States, Goldman argues, they would have to show that Judaism and Jewish worship could change enough to resemble the gender order of the American bourgeoisie. . . .

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