A Price Below Rubies: Jewish Women as Rebels and Radicals by Naomi Shepherd non-media and other firsthand accounts

and other firsthand accounts

A National Jewish Book Award winner

This first history of name changing in the United States offers a previously unexplored window into American Jewish life throughout the twentieth century

prisoners added or reinvented thousands of Yiddish words and phrases to describe their new reality

Divided between those embracing change and those clinging to its old world ways

A Price Below Rubies: Jewish Women as Rebels and Radicals by Naomi Shepherd non-media and other firsthand accountsWhy, in the late nineteenth century, did Jewish women suddenly march en masse into the pages of radical history? A Price Below Rubies explores this question and introduces us to these womenparticularly, Anna Kuliscioff, Rosa Luxemburg, Esther Frumkin, Manya Shochat, Bertha Pappenheim, Rose Pesotta, and Emma Goldman. Naomi Shepherds collective biography of these seven women and others tells the story of a revolution that began at home, in communities