My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman - Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland

In her memoir Rakovsky reflects on the position of Jewish women in her time and gives her personal and political perspective on central events of modern Jewish history from her childhood until her emigration to the Land of Israel in 1935.

List of contents

Table of Contents:

Foreword

A Note on Translation

Map

Introduction

1.Bialystok - Warsaw

2.A Kheyder for Girls

3.Daughters of Zion

4.Winds of Revolution

5.Family Tragedies

6.Winds of War

7.To the Land of Israel

8.Organizing Polish Jewish Women

9.Russian Journey

10.Aliyah

Index

About the author

Paula E. Hyman is the Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University.



Barbara Harshav's translations include A Surplus of Memory by Yitzhak Zuckerman.

Summary

The compelling memoir of a Polish-Jewish woman who was an educator, Zionist activist, and feminist leader

Product details

• Authors: Daniel J. Goulding, Puah Rakovsky, Rakovsky Puah
• Assisted by: Paula Hyman (Editor), Paula E. Hyman (Editor), Translated from the Yiddish by Barbara H (Editor), Barbara Harshav (Translation)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.10.2003
• EAN: 9780253215642
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21564-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Weight: 327 g
• Illustrations: 1 b&w photos, 1 maps, 1 index
• Series: Modern Jewish Experience; The Modern Jewish Experience
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Osteuropa, Bezug zu Juden und jüdischen Gruppen, Jugoslawien, Film, Kino, Fernsehen, TV, Südosteuropa