The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects 9781941792209

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Автор: Leibman Laura Arnold
Название: The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects
ISBN: 9781941792209
Классификация:

Социальная история и история культуры

Гендерные исследования: женщины

Иудаика

ISBN-10: 1941792200
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 350
Вес: 0.74 кг.
Дата издания: 01.03.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 234 x 161 x 31
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: In The Art of the Jewish Family, Laura Arnold Leibman examines five objects owned by a diverse group of Jewish women who all lived in New York in the years between 1750 and 1850: a letter from impoverished Hannah Louzada seeking assistance; a set of silver cups owned by Reyna Levy Moses; an ivory miniature owned by Sarah Brandon Moses, who was born enslaved and became one of the wealthiest Jewish women in New York; a book created by Sarah Ann Hays Mordecai; and a family silhouette owned by Rebbetzin Jane Symons Isaacs. These objects offer intimate and tangible views into the lives of Jewish American women from a range of statuses, beliefs, and lifestyles--both rich and poor, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, slaves and slaveowners.

Each chapter creates a biography of a single woman through an object, offering a new methodology that looks past texts alone to material culture in order to further understand early Jewish American womens lives and restore their agency as creators of Jewish identity. While much of the available history was written by men, the objects that Leibman studies were made for and by Jewish women. Speaking to American Jewish life, womens studies, and American history, The Art of the Jewish Family sheds new light on the lives and values of these women, while also revealing the social and religious structures that led to Jewish women being erased from historical archives.

The Art of the Jewish Family was the winner of three 2020 National Jewish Book Awards: the Celebrate 350 Award for American Jewish Studies, the Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award for History, and the Barbara Dobkin Award for Womens Studies.

The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects, Leibman Laura Arnold