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This text investigates the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In extreme cases, hundreds of these women sought refuge in a KrakØw convent, where many converted to Catholicism. Those who stayed home often remained Jewish in name only. The book reconstructs the stories of three Jewish women runaways and reveals their struggles and innermost convictions.

Young women --- Jewish women --- Jewish women --- Jewish women --- Christian converts from Judaism --- Conflict of generations --- Religious life --- History. --- Education --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Conversion to Christianity --- Felician Sisters. --- Kraków (Poland) --- 1869 Habsburg compulsory education law. --- A Murder in Lemburg. --- Anna Kluger. --- Austrian history. --- Beit Yaakov schools. --- Confessions of the Shtetl. --- Daniel Unowsky. --- Debora Lewkowicz. --- Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish Identity in Habsburg Galicia. --- Eastern European Jewish history. --- Ellie Schainker. --- Felician Sisters' convent. --- Galician Jewry. --- Habsburg monarchy. --- Hasidic women. --- Hasidism. --- Iris Parush. --- Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia. --- Jewish Women in Eastern Europe. --- Jewish feminism. --- Joshua Shanes. --- Michael Stanislawski. --- Michalina Araten. --- Orthodox Jewish society. --- Paula Hyman. --- Polonized identity. --- Reading Jewish Women. --- Sarah Schenirer. --- The Plunder. --- Viennese Supreme Court. --- abductions by the Church. --- church abductions. --- formal Jewish education for women. --- gender studies. --- ideological indoctrination.