THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Two Marcus Volumes on Jewish Women in U.S.
By BEN GALLOB
(Copyright 1982, JTA, Inc.)
On the premise that the
American Jewish woman
has been ignored in the
standard chronicles of this
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country's Jewry," a famous
Jewish historian, Jacob
Rader Marcus, has prepared
two volumes to fill the gap.
One is "The American
Jewish Woman, 1654-
1980," a 256-page narra-
tive. The other, "The
American Jewish Woman:
A Documentary History,"
contains 1,200 pages of let-
ters, wills, memoirs and
biographical sketches.
Dr. Marcus, Distin-
guished Service Professor of
American Jewish History at
the (Reform) Hebrew Union
College, describes the two
volumes as "an attempt to
recapture the past as it ac-
tually was."
The books introduce
the reader to little-known
but remarkable Ameri-
can Jewish women who
are included chronologi-
cally and by their fields of
achievement. They in-
clude:
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described as perhaps the
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Sophie Goldsmith, a 19th
Century German-born
housewife, who began by
sewing basketballs and
wound up running the
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ation;
Eugenia Phillips of
Alabama, an anti-Yankee
political activist who was
jailed by Union troops dur-
ing the Civil War;
Florence Prag Kahn,
America's first Jewish
woman member of Con-
gress, a Republican from
San Francisco elected to six
consecutive terms.
Alma Gluck, one of
America's most beloved
musical recitalists, whose
recording of "Carry Me
Back to Old Virginny" sold
more than_ two million
copies. She and her hus-
band, violinist Efrem Zim-
balist, converted to Chris-
tianity.
Before there was Gloria
Steinem, there was her
grandmother, Pauline, the
first woman elected to pub-
lic office in Toledo, Ohio,
who served as president of
the Ohio Suffrage Associa-
tion. Dr. Marcus also paid
tribute to Betty Friedan,
who, he wrote, "perhaps
more than anyone else has
helped emancipate women
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political talent. Along with
the internationally-known
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Belle Moskovitz, adviser to
New York Governor Al
Smith, described by the
New York Times as "having
wielded more political
power than any woman in
the United States."
The two volumes were
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Archives of Cincinnati.
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