Motherhood as Motivation: American Jewish Women in Action, 1890–1940

2017 ◽  
pp. 207-224
Author(s):  
Melissa R. Klapper
Keyword(s):  
Gender Difference ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Peace Movement ◽  
Ethnic Identities ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
American Jewish ◽  
Crucial Ingredient ◽  
Collective Belief

This chapter discusses maternalism as a collective belief in gender difference based on motherhood as the foundation for reform. It argues that maternalism was a crucial ingredient in the activism of Jewish women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It also mentions Der Fraynd, the socialist Workmen's Circle monthly publication that linked the origins of the women's rights movement to prehistoric matriarchal societies in the fight for suffrage. The chapter analyses the peace movement that exhorted Jewish mothers to pass on the value of peace to their children and instruct them about the evils of war. It looks at how maternalism provided a framework and language for maintaining Jewish identity within a wider societal sphere as Jewish women moved into more public arenas and joined with women of different ethnic identities.

Angels, Monsters, and Jews: Intersections of Queer and Jewish Identity in Kushner's Angels in America

PMLA ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 113 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Freedman
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Jewish Experience ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
American Jewish ◽  
Angels In America

The discursive ligature between the Jew and the sexually transgressive is crucially revised in Tony Kushner's Angels in America. Kushner creates a powerful series of metonymies between the queer and the Jew that suggest their affinities but refuse to reify a unitary queer-Jewish identity. The center of this imaginative project is Kushner's Roy Cohn, who both illustrates and transforms the image of the queer Jewish power broker that circulated in American anti-Semitic discourses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. But Cohn's fate in the play suggests that the author's attitude toward Jewishness is conflicted, and the play's turn to Christian imagery confirms the suggestion. To fulfill laudatory political ends, Kushner deploys a typological vision common in American imaginative production and fulfills a pattern of assimilation equally common in American Jewish experience. I conclude by turning to Walter Benjamin, one of Kushner's sources, for a different model of identity formation that might avoid this fate.

The Lamp, Qasim Amin, Jewish Women and Baghdadi Men: A Reading in the Jewish Iraqi Journal al-Misbah

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orit Bashkin
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Apparent Contradiction ◽  
British Mandate ◽  
Arab Nationalism ◽  
State Institutions

This chapter provides a detailed reading of al-Misbah, a Jewish Iraqi publication which appeared in Baghdad between the years 1924 and 1929 and has been characterised both as a Zionist mouthpiece and a testimony to the success of Arab nationalism. In addressing this apparent contradiction, the chapter examines the issues which dominated its pages in order to highlight the identity of the paper and to enrich our understanding of the Iraqi press under the British Mandate. The chapter addresses two discursive circles – the Iraqi and the Jewish – and proposes that al-Misbah conveyed an unmistakable Iraqi and Arab identity. Despite the editor’s Zionist inclinations, the conversations between readers and writers acquired a life of their own and the paper, in fact, promoted a new Arab Jewish identity and illustrated how Jews sought to use state institutions as venues for the cultivation of non-sectarian and democratic citizenship.

American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise (review)

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 204-210
Author(s):  
Donna Robinson Divine
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Women ◽  
American Jewish

Jewish Women's Psychological Well-Being: The Role of Attachment, Separation, and Jewish Identity

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie L. Goldberg ◽  
Karen M. O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Psychological Functioning ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Late Adolescent ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Separation From Parents ◽  
Anxiety Depression

The purpose of this study was to examine the contributions of attachment, separation, and Jewish identity to psychological well-being in a sample of 115 late adolescent Jewish women. Results from multiple regression analyses demonstrated that attachment to parents, separation from parents, and Jewish identity collectively accounted for variance in psychological distress, as measured by anxiety, depression, self-esteem problems, and interpersonal problems. Thus, late adolescent Jewish women's psychological functioning may be fostered by therapeutic interventions addressing their relationships with parents and Jewish identity.

scholarly journals Sayyid Mumtaz Ali and ‘Huquq un-Niswan’: An Advocate of Women's Rights in Islam in the Late Nineteenth Century

1990 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail Minault
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Third Place ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Sometime in the late 1890s, Sayyid Mumtaz Ali visited Aligarh and happened to show Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan the manuscript of his treatise in defense of women's rights in Islamic law, Huquq un-Niswan. As he began to read it, Sir Sayyid looked shocked. He then opened it to a second place and his face turned red. As he read it at a third place, his hands started to tremble. Finally, he tore up the manuscript and threw it into the wastepaper basket. Fortunately, at that moment a servant arrived to announce lunch, and as Sir Sayyid left his office, Mumtaz Ali snatched his mutilated manuscript from the trash. He waited until after Sir Sayyid's death in 1898, however, to publish Huquq un-Niswan.

scholarly journals Naming customs as an indication of assimilation: a study of first names in the two Jewish congregations of Stockholm and Malmö 1895–1921

2000 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 111-122
Author(s):  
Rita Bredefeldt
Keyword(s):  
Gender Difference ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Mothers And Daughters ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Decisive Importance ◽  
Swedish Society ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Fathers And Sons

Jews in both congregations wanted to mark their will to integrate into Swedish society. In this case, the congregation milieu was not of decisive importance. We can see a drop in Jewish names shortly after the most intensive immigration period of Orthodox Eastern Jews in both Malmö and Stockholm. Non-Jewish names dominate strongly in the congregation of Stockholm because of its long history and liberal traditions. The difference between generations is a similar phenomenon in both congregations. The parents had more often Jewish names than their children and this was more so in Malmö than in Stockholm. Another similarity between the congregations is the gender difference. Fathers and sons had more often Jewish names than mothers and daughters. In this case, it seems that in the long run, the Jewish minority wanted to be much like the Swedish majority. While some still marked their Jewish identity with a Jewish name, a growing group marked its will of integration and assimilation.

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