6 Kaufmann Kohler and the Ideal Jewish Woman

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Women and the Synagogue 1
5. 1 Jewish Women: Acculturation in Old and New Worlds 17
6. 2 Women’s Emergence in the Early American Synagogue Community 38
7. 3 The Quest for Respectability: Mixed Choirs and Family Pews 78
8. 4 The Trouble with Jewish Women 100
9. 5 Women in the Reforming Synagogue: Resistance and Transformation 121
10. 6 Kaufmann Kohler and the Ideal Jewish Woman 151
11. 7 Beyond the Gallery: American Jewish Women in the 1890s 172
12. Epilogue: Twentieth-Century Resonances 200
13. Notes 217
14. Index 267