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Fighting to Become Americans - Assimilation and the Trouble between Jewish Women and Jewish Men (Paperback)
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Fighting to Become Americans - Assimilation and the Trouble between Jewish Women and Jewish Men (Paperback)
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"Gutsy and imaginative . . . convincingly engages a range of
complex issues about how men and women, Jews and gentiles, perceive
one another." -Kirkus Reviews "Her exaggerated coiffure, with its
imitation curls and soaped curves that stick out at the side of the
head like fantastic gargoyles, is an offense to the eye. Her plated
gold jewelry with paste stones reveals its cheapness by its very
extravagance." This description of a "ghetto girl" was printed in
the American Jewish News in 1918, but with slight variation it
might easily be mistaken for a description of our current
pernicious and pejorative stereotype of Jewish womanhood, the
"JAP." What are the origins of these stereotypes? And even more
important, why would an American ethnic group use racist terms to
describe itself? Riv-Ellen Prell asks these compelling questions as
she observes how deeply anti-Semitic stereotypes infuse Jewish
men's and women's views of one another in this history of Jewish
acculturation in the twentieth century. "While Jews and feminists
have over the years repeatedly debated whether the JAP is 'real' or
not, Prell's research breaks new ground because she examines the
class anxieties underlying the image. . . . Fighting to Become
Americans] will challenge any reader's preconceptions about who is
and is not an American and why." -Laura Brahm, The Women's Review
of Books "Well-written and lively." -Jewish World "A definitive and
fascinating history of the complex relationships between Jewish men
and women in the twentieth century." -George Cohen, Booklist "
S]hows how the stereotypes we accept and create about ourselves
mirror our anxieties in American society. . . . Prell's] analyses
are telling and original." -Ruth F. Brin, St. Paul Pioneer Press
Riv-Ellen Prell is author of Prayer and Community: The Havurah in
American Judaism, winner of the National Jewish Book Award. She is
currently professor of American studies at the University of
Minnesota in Minneapolis.
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