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Author Ashton, Dianne

Title Rebecca Gratz : women and Judaism in antebellum America / Dianne Ashton
Published Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations
Series American Jewish civilization series
American Jewish civilization series.
Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Gratz Family in Early Philadelphia -- Philadelphia's Early Growth and Diversity -- The Gratzes -- Women's Responsibilities -- The Bonding of the Generations -- The Bonding of Correspondence -- 2. A Personality Transformed: 1800-1815 -- Family, Friends, and Sickbeds -- The Female Association -- Culture and Anti-Semitism -- Letters, Wills, and More Friends -- Literary Circles and Friendships -- Death, Depression, and Travels -- Celibacy, Religion, Children, and Correspondence
3. The Founding of the Female Hebrew Benevolent Society: 1817-1830 -- The Rise of Antebellum Evangelism -- Brothers' Business -- The Female Hebrew Benevolent Society -- Female Piety and Literary Heroes -- Charitable and Religious Obligations -- 4. The Founding of the Hebrew Sunday School: 1830-1840 -- Religion and Social Order -- Friendship vs. Love -- Responding to Evangelism -- Literature, Theater, and Moral Values -- Personal Challenges from Christianity -- Jewish Religious Education -- Women's Mission -- The Hebrew Sunday School -- 5. The Lessons of the Hebrew Sunday School -- Growth
Political and Religious Boundaries -- Theological Sources and Perspectives -- Ideas in Jewish Education: Aguilar and Leeser -- Crossing Gender Roles through Piety -- The Women -- 6. Sentimental Language and Social Power: 1840-1860 -- Changes in Judaism and Jewish Life -- Charitable Responsibilities -- Jewish Women Writers -- 7. Family Ties and Sectional Conflict: 1840-1850 -- Forging Family Connections -- Southern Attitudes -- Distant Bonds -- 8. Women in New Jewish Institutions: 1850-1860 -- The Founding of the Jewish Foster Home -- Other New Institutions -- The Growth of the Jewish Foster Home
Financial Problems -- Women's Nature and American Jewish Theology -- Personal Tragedies -- 9. Gratz's Last Years and Legacy -- Guiding Family and Community during National Conflict -- The Hebrew Sunday School: Growth after Gratz -- The Jewish Foster Home: Later Growth -- 10. The Legend of Rebecca Gratz -- The Tale -- American Society at the Turn of the Century -- Gratz as a Model for Jewish Women -- Legendary Logic -- Echoes in American Culture -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-321) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Gratz, Rebecca, 1781-1869.
SUBJECT Gratz, Rebecca, 1781-1869 fast
Gratz, Rebecca. swd
Subject Jews -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography
Jewish women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography
Jewish religious education of children -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century
Jewish religious education of children
Jewish women
Jews
Joden.
Vrouwen.
SUBJECT Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Biography
Subject Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780814341018
0814341012
Other Titles Women and Judaism in antebellum America