The American Jewess

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The American Jewess (1895-1899) described itself as "the only magazine in the world devoted to the interests of Jewish women." It was the first English-language periodical targeted to American Jewish women, covering an evocative range of topics that ranged from women's place in the synagogue to whether women should ride bicycles.

[edit] History

Founded and edited by Rosa Sonnenschein (1847-1932), it offered the first sustained critique, by Jewish women, of gender inequities in Jewish worship and communal life.

[edit] Online

Assembled and digitized for online access by the Jewish Women's Archive, 8 volumes of The American Jewess were assembled from the collections of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Klau Library, Brandeis University Libraries, the Library of Congress, and the Jewish Women's Archive.

[edit] External links

• All issues – from the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative.