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The Art of the Jewish Family - A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects (Hardcover)
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The Art of the Jewish Family - A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects (Hardcover)
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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 women's 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,
women's 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 Women's Studies.
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