A Feminist Awakening? Evangelical Women and the Arab Renaissance

2019 ◽  
pp. 143-212
Author(s):  
Deanna Ferree Womack
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Women Activists ◽  
Spiritual Leadership ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Female Education ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Evangelical Women ◽  
American Mission

Syrian Protestant women did not join in the published theological debates of the Christian presses in Beirut, but chapter 3 reveals that in the 1880s they began publishing sermons and articles on female education and child-rearing (tarbiya) for the mission periodical al-Nashra al-Usbu’iyya (The Weekly Bulletin). Along with the books and novels that women published at the American Mission Press, these largely neglected articles put Syrian Protestant women at the forefront of the Arab women’s awakening that gained momentum in the early twentieth century and united Christian, Muslim, and Jewish women activists. These proto-feminist authors occupied the traditionally masculine sphere of Arabic production and carved out a space for women’s intellectual and spiritual leadership in the Protestant community. Among these women were the acclaimed journalists Farida ’Atiya, Hanna Kurani, and Julia Tu’ma al-Dimashqiyya.

Musical Theatre at Girls’ Jewish Summer Camps

2019 ◽  
pp. 225-248
Author(s):  
Stacy Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Summer Camp ◽  
Musical Theatre ◽  
Summer Camps ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Stephen Sondheim ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Theatre Production

In the summer musicals take place in the tiny, insular, homogenous culture of girls’ non-Orthodox Jewish summer camps in Maine. Each of these summer camps was founded by Jewish women—all early twentieth-century progressive educators—for socioeconomically privileged Jewish girls. Since the early 1900s, girls who attend the summer camps have participated in theatre as a required activity alongside swimming, volleyball, and arts and crafts, so musical theatre shapes their experiences in profound ways. This chapter visits four of these summer camps in the same state where Stephen Sondheim spent many summers at Androscoggin, an all-boys’ Jewish summer camp. Over the course of their years at camp, most girls perform in seven musicals and see forty more. In this consciously created community, the excitement, pressure, and camaraderie of musical theatre production creates an even more intense bubble in its midst.

Martha Jane Cunningham: A Women’s Missionary Society Pioneer

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-84
Author(s):  
Alexandria Dugal
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
North America ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Female Education ◽  
Methodist Church ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Missionary Movement

By the early twentieth century the Canadian women’s missionary movement had collectively become the largest women’s organization in North America. The Women’s Missionary Society of the Methodist Church of Canada (WMS), established in 1880, founded three girl’s schools in Japan to help meet the need for female education and to evangelize through these students. One of these schools was Shizuoka Eiwa Jo Gakkō of Shizuoka, whose first principal was Martha Jane Cunningham, a WMS missionary from Halifax, Nova Scotia. This article tells her life-story.

Russia in Rome

Experiment ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 258-275
Author(s):  
Lucia Tonini
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Historical Objects ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
American Mission

Abstract The presence of thirty-three Russian head-dresses, as well as other historical objects, in the collection of the American diplomat, George Wurts, and his wife, Henrietta Tower, is an uncommon example of collecting Russian folk objects abroad, and testifies to a universality of taste in international collecting during the late nineteenth century. The head-dress collection is part of a larger collection of around 4,000 pieces dating from antiquity to the early twentieth century, which was assembled at the Palazzo Antici Mattei and the Villa Sciarra in Rome between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. Wurts and Tower had a particular interest in arts and crafts, which was enabled by Wurts’s career as a diplomat and secretary at the American mission in St. Petersburg for a period of ten years (1882-93). This article describes the key characteristics of the Wurts-Tower collection of folk objects, the circumstances of its formation, and its relation to the tendencies of taste during that time. It also testifies to the transformation of the kokoshnik in the eyes of collectors and viewers from a popular costume to a fashion accessory that was linked to a past world.

Some Polish Composers of To-Day

Tempo ◽  
1948 ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Andrzej Panufnik
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Fertile Soil ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Progressive Group ◽  
Karol Szymanowski

It is ten years since KAROL SZYMANOWSKI died at fifty-four. He was the most prominent representative of the “radical progressive” group of early twentieth century composers, which we call “Young Poland.” In their manysided and pioneering efforts they prepared the fertile soil on which Poland's present day's music thrives.

V1214: Edward Loughborough Keyes: An Early Twentieth Century Leader In Urology

2004 ◽  
Vol 171 (4S) ◽  
pp. 320-320
Author(s):  
Peter J. Stahl ◽  
E. Darracott Vaughan ◽  
Edward S. Belt ◽  
David A. Bloom ◽  
Ann Arbor
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century
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