| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Jeanne E. Abrams. Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail: A History in the American West. New York: New York University Press. 2006. Pp. viii, 279. $39.00.

Jeanne E. Abrams's enjoyable bookopens with a series of biographical sketches of Jewish women who made their way west in the nineteenth century. Traveling by covered wagon, stagecoach, train, and steamer, they moved into what Abrams refers to as "the highly multicultural world of the American West" (p. 2). There they put down family roots, constructed homes, established businesses, built communities, and contributed to civic welfare, just as their non-Jewish female neighbors did. But, like their Jewish counterparts in other areas of the United States, especially the South, these women also "struggled to maintain some semblance of Jewish tradition and build Jewish homes" (p. 3) without the supportive infrastructure available in the East Coast and Midwest centers of nineteenth-century American Jewish life.

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