| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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"The Whole Wide World Without Limits": International Relief, Gender Politics, and American Jewish Women, 1893–1930. By Mary McCune. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005. xvi, 280 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-8143-3229-3.)

In focusing her study on three American Jewish women's groups during the early decades of the twentieth century, Mary McCune offers an excellent case study of the gendered politics of organizational life within the Jewish community. Her finely tuned analysis illuminates the complex negotiations taken by women of different class and activist backgrounds as they shaped their own identities apart from male colleagues. In response to historical exigencies, particularly World War I, the women and their organizations developed an international outreach that led to innovative relief and rescue work, new kinds of Zionist activism, and other innovations in social welfare services that differentiated them from their male peers, more broadly pointing the way toward new patterns of female activism.

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