Letters of Abigaill Levy Franks, 1733-1748 - Letters of Abigaill Levy Franks 1733-1748

Klappentext Abigaill Franks' letters are among the earliest extant by a woman in colonial New York City. They are also the earliest known letters by a Jewish woman in British America and probably the Western colonies. Thirty-five letters survive! all written to her son Naphtali between 1733 and 1748. These letters represent a rare resource for the study of family life during the colonial period as well as of the life of a lively and articulate woman.In this fascinating book! Edith B. Gelles carefully edits all of Abigaill Franks' letters to make them accessible to modern readers. Gelles' substantial introduction provides a portrait of New York City at the time! describes typical colonial family life! and discusses the Jewish immigrant experience in New York. Abigaill's spontaneously written letters tell of one Jewish family's assimilation in eighteenth-century America; it is a story that resonates with other stories of assimilation that permeate the pages of American history.

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• Authors: Abigail Franks, Edith B. Gelles, Edith B. (EDT)/ FRANKS Gelles, Edith B. (Senior Scholar Gelles, GELLES EDITH B SENIOR SCHOLAR
• Assisted by: Edith B. Gelles (Editor), Edith Belle Gelles (Editor), Gelles Edith B. (Editor)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.11.2004
• EAN: 9780300103458
• ISBN: 978-0-300-10345-8
• No. of pages: 186
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; New York, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of the Americas, C 1700 To C 1800, New York (state)