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The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the cityJewish New York reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city’s most important ethnic and religious groups. Jewish immigrants changed New York. They built its clothing industry and constructed huge swaths of apartment buildings. New York Jews helped to make the city the center of the nation’s publishing industry and shaped popular culture in music, theater, and the arts. With a strong sense of social justice, a dedication to civil rights and civil liberties, and a belief in the duty of government to provide social welfare for all its citizens, New York Jews influenced the city, state, and nation with a new wave of social activism.In turn, New York transformed Judaism and stimulated religious pluralism, Jewish denominationalism, and contemporary feminism. The city’s neighborhoods hosted unbelievably diverse types of Jews, from Communists to Hasidim. Jewish New York not only describes Jews’ many positive influences on New York, but also exposes their struggles with poverty and anti-Semitism. These injustices reinforced an exemplary commitment to remaking New York into a model multiethnic, multiracial, and multireligious world city. Based on the acclaimed multi-volume set City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York winner of the National Jewish Book Council 2012 Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year Award, Jewish New York spans three centuries, tracing the earliest arrival of Jews in New Amsterdam to the recent immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union.

Jews --- History. --- New York (N.Y.) --- Hasidim. --- Jewish Book of the Year Award. --- american jews. --- american zionism. --- anti-Semitism. --- bernie sanders. --- jewish experience. --- jewish immigrants. --- jewish neighborhoods. --- jews. --- new york history. --- new york neighborhoods. --- new york synagogues. --- orthodox jews. --- ruth bader ginsburg.

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A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of IsraelIn this authoritative and empathetic biography, Pnina Lahav reexamines the life of Golda Meir (1898–1978) through a feminist lens, focusing on her recurring role as a woman standing alone among men. The Only Woman in the Room is the first book to contend with Meir’s full identity as a woman, Jew, Zionist leader, and one of the founders of Israel, providing a richer portrait of her persona and legacy.Meir, Lahav shows, deftly deflected misogyny as she traveled the path to becoming Israel’s fourth, and only female, prime minister, from 1969 to 1974. Lahav revisits the youthful encounters that forged Meir’s passion for socialist Zionism and reassesses her decision to separate from her husband and leave her children in the care of others. Enduring humiliation and derision from her colleagues, Meir nevertheless led in establishing Israel as a welfare state where social security, workers’ rights, and maternity leave became law. Lahav looks at the challenges that beset Meir’s premiership, particularly the disastrous Yom Kippur War, which led to her resignation and withdrawal from politics, as well as Meir’s bitter duel with feminist and civil rights leader Shulamit Aloni, Meir’s complex relationship with the Israeli and American feminist movements, and the politics that led her to distance herself from feminism altogether.Exploring the tensions between Meir’s personal and political identities, The Only Woman in the Room provides a groundbreaking new account of Meir’s life while also illuminating the difficulties all women face as they try to ascend in male-dominated fields.

Women prime ministers --- Meir, Golda, --- A Room of One's Own. --- Activism. --- All rights reserved. --- Amendment. --- Aunt. --- Bourgeoisie. --- Buddhism. --- Cess. --- Clare Boothe Luce. --- Comrade. --- Dafna. --- Davar. --- Deliberation. --- Disability. --- Disadvantage. --- Dissident. --- Double burden. --- Emptiness. --- Ethel Kennedy. --- Femininity. --- Feminism (international relations). --- Feminism. --- Feminist philosophy. --- Feminist theory. --- First Lady. --- Flightless bird. --- Furniture. --- Gender equality. --- Gender neutrality. --- Gender role. --- Glass ceiling. --- Golda Meir. --- Groupthink. --- Halakha. --- Hanging. --- Henrietta Szold. --- Histadrut. --- Hostility. --- Humiliation. --- In Her Skin. --- Inferiority complex. --- Institution. --- Isolationism. --- Israel State Archives. --- Israelis. --- Jews. --- John Foster Dulles. --- Kibbutz. --- Knesset. --- Ladies' Home Journal. --- Lawlessness. --- Letty Cottin Pogrebin. --- Loneliness. --- Majority rule. --- Majority. --- Manicure. --- Mapai. --- Memoir. --- Misogyny. --- Mother. --- Mrs. --- Ms. --- Multitude. --- Oriana Fallaci. --- Pale of Settlement. --- Password. --- Pat Nixon. --- Persephone. --- Privacy. --- Proportionality (mathematics). --- Rachel Katznelson-Shazar. --- Reason. --- Resentment. --- Ridicule. --- Ritual. --- Ruth Bader Ginsburg. --- Secrecy (book). --- Secrecy. --- Secularism. --- Sewing. --- Sexism. --- Shimon Peres. --- Socialist feminism. --- Squat toilet. --- Subconscious. --- Suffragette. --- Superiority (short story). --- Sympathy. --- Tel Aviv. --- The Bathtub. --- The Feminine Mystique. --- Tibetan Buddhism. --- Uncertainty. --- Upper class. --- Virginity. --- Weapon. --- Wet nurse. --- Women in Israel. --- Yiddish. --- Zionism.