| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.1

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Book Review

Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail: A History in the American West. By Jeanne E. Abrams. (New York: New York University Press, 2006. vii + 278 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.00.)

According to archivist and Jewish historian Jeanne Abrams, Jews in the early American West were few in number but high in visibility. This study of Jewish women in the nineteenth-century West supports her claim. In this exhaustively researched study, Abrams provides a "Who's Who" of prominent Jewish women who made valuable contributions in their communities and in the region. Consider Mary Ann Cohen Magnin, founder of I. Magnin, an upscale women's clothing store named for her husband Isaac, in San Francisco in 1877; Florence Prag Kahn, the first Jewish woman in the United States elected to Congress in 1924; Jessica Peixotto, the first woman faculty member at Berkeley, 1904; or Ray (Rachel) Frank Litman, referred to in the popular press (ca. 1900) as the "girl rabbi," all selflessly committed to ensuring the survival of American Judaism in the West. She also credits the many unnamed women who emigrated West, settled towns and communities and contributed to the religious, economic, and social development of the region.

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