| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.1

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Canada and the United States

Mary McCune. "The Whole Wide World Without Limits": International Relief, Gender Politics, and American Jewish Women, 1893–1930. (American Jewish Civilization Series.) Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press. 2005. Pp xv. 280. $49.95.
The title of this intriguing volume quotes Hannah G. Solomon, famous for founding the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), the first national organization for American Jewish women. Ironically, although charitable women like Solomon may have viewed their horizons as limitless, gender politics placed innumerable hurdles in their paths. As they sought to provide assistance to beleaguered Jews in Europe, the United States, and the Middle East, gender roles, international politics, and Jewish identity shaped their routes to effective aid, their relationships with other Jewish groups, and ultimately, their own organizations.	1
Mary McCune selects three organizations that together reveal the ways in which gender politics impacted Jewish women from very different backgrounds who set themselves different goals. The NCJW began as an independent women's organization in the late nineteenth century. Hadassah originated as a women's chapter of a men's Zionist organization. Women of the Arbiter Ring, or Workmen's Circle, worked within an organization whose ideology presumed all gender-related social problems had been solved when Socialism declared women and men to be equal as workers, yet that ideology ignored domestic labor. By 1930, women in each of these organizations entered the gender politics fray to maintain agency over their own projects.	. . .

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