Zelda Popkin - The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer

This book is about Zelda Popkin who lived and wrote through all the great changes of American Jewish women's lives in the 20th century: the reaction against religious tradition, women's emancipation, struggles against antisemitism, the impact of the Holocaust and the creation of Israel, and the upsurge of Jewish identity in the 1960s.

List of contents

Introduction: Zelda Popkin, An American Jew, an American Woman, an American Writer
1. An American Jewish Childhood
2. Zelda Popkin: Modern American Woman
3. Women, Murderers, and Soldiers: A Career in Popular Culture
4. Facing Personal Loss and Jewish Catastrophe
5. Zelda Popkin and the Women of Israel
6. Left Behind in the 'Golden Age'
7. "Yes, There Is a Second Chance"
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Sources and Bibliography

About the author

Jeremy D. Popkin holds the William T. Bryan chair of history at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of many books, including most recently A New World Begins: A History of the French Revolution (Basic Books, 2019). He resides in Lexington, Kentucky.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Popkin, Jeremy D Popkin, Jeremy D. Popkin
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2023
• EAN: 9781538168431
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-6843-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Jewish, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Jewish Studies, United States of America, USA, Relating to Jewish people & groups, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women & girls