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Book Review

Women and American Judaism: Historical Perspectives. Ed. by Pamela S. Nadell and Jonathan D. Sarna. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2001. xviii, 322 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 1-58465-123-7. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 1-58465-124-5.)
Pamela S. Nadell and Jonathan D. Sarna have assembled an excellent collection of original research about Jewish women in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. Contributions range from theoretical studies about identity formation to biographical studies of particular individuals. Varied in style and content, the articles add significantly to the expanding scholarship about Jewish women in America with a special focus on women's relationship to Judaism as a religion. Heretofore most scholarship on American Jewish women has had a sociological or ethnic rather than a religious focus, dealing, for example, with immigration and acculturation or with women's participation in secular movements such as suffrage or unionization. This volume's focus on women's religious life is therefore especially welcome. . . .
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