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The twenty-one contributors analyze the history of Jewish women in the light of gender as religious

A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press by Ayelet Brinn textbook and history of today’s IsraeliNational Jewish Book Award Finalist A fascinating glimpse into the complex and often unexpected ways that women and ideas about women shaped widely read Jewish newspapers. Between the 1880s and 1920s, Yiddish language newspapers rose from obscurity to become successful institutions integral to American Jewish life. During this period, Yiddish speaking immigrants came to view newspapers as indispensable parts of their daily lives. For many Jewish