The Rebellion of the Daughters (eBook)

Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia

Rachel Manekin (Autor)

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2020
304 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20709-4 (ISBN)

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An in-depth exploration of the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox homes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesThe Rebellion of the Daughters 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 Krakow convent, where many converted to Catholicism. Those who stayed home often remained Jewish in name only.Relying on a wealth of archival documents, including court testimonies, letters, diaries, and press reports, Rachel Manekin reconstructs the stories of three Jewish women runaways and reveals their struggles and innermost convictions. Unlike Orthodox Jewish boys, who attended cheders, traditional schools where only Jewish subjects were taught, Orthodox Jewish girls were sent to Polish primary schools. When the time came for them to marry, many young women rebelled against the marriages arranged by their parents, with some wishing to pursue secondary and university education. After World War I, the crisis of the rebellious daughters in Krakow spurred the introduction of formal religious education for young Orthodox Jewish women in Poland, which later developed into a worldwide educational movement. Manekin chronicles the belated Orthodox response and argues that these educational innovations not only kept Orthodox Jewish women within the fold but also foreclosed their opportunities for higher education.Exploring the estrangement of young Jewish women from traditional Judaism in Habsburg Galicia at the turn of the twentieth century, The Rebellion of the Daughters brings to light a forgotten yet significant episode in Eastern European history.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
• Reihe/Serie: Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
• Zusatzinfo: 8 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: 1869 Habsburg compulsory education law • abductions by the Church • affair • Age of Majority • Agudat Yisrael • Allegation • A Murder in Lemburg • Anna Kluger • Apostasy • appellate court • Austrian history • Bais Yaakov • Beit Yaakov schools • Bnei Brak • bridegroom • Catechism • Catholic Church • Center for Advanced Judaic Studies • church abductions • Compulsory Education • Confessions of the Shtetl • Congress Poland • Consideration • Conversion to Judaism • courtesy • Curriculum • Daniel Unowsky • Debora Lewkowicz • Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish Identity in Habsburg Galicia • Eastern European Jewish history • editorial • Education • educational initiatives • Ellie Schainker • erudition • Felician Sisters • Felician Sisters' convent • female education • formal Jewish education for women • Galician Jewry • Galician Jews • Gemara • Gender Studies • governess • Graduation • Habsburg monarchy • Hasidic women • Hasidism • Hasid (term) • Haskalah • His Family • horowitz • Housewife • Ideological indoctrination • Ideology • In Parenthesis • Institution • Iris Parush • Jagiellonian University • Jewish Education • Jewish feminism • Jewish History • Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia • Jewish prayer • Jewish Women in Eastern Europe • Jews • Joshua Shanes • Judaism • Kulturkampf • lawyer • Lecture • Literature • Liverpool University Press • Lviv • marriage • Matriculation exam (Finland) • Michael Stanislawski • Michalina Araten • Mishnah • Modernity • Moses • national library of israel • newspaper • Orthodox Jewish society • Orthodox Judaism • Paula Hyman • Payot • Pedagogy • Phrase • Polin • Polish Language • Polish Literature • Polonization • Polonized identity • Primary school • Princeton University Press • Profession • Protestantism • Publication • public lecture • Rabbi • Rabbinical Assembly • Rashi • Reading Jewish Women • rebbetzin • Reform Judaism • Religion • Religious Conversion • Religious education • Samson Raphael Hirsch • Sarah Schenirer • S. (Dorst novel) • secular education • Secularization • seminary • spouse • State court (United States) • State law (United States) • Suffering • Suggestion • Talmud • The Other Hand • The Plunder • Toponymy • Torah study • Transliteration • Usage • Viennese Supreme Court • Wealth • women in Judaism • Writing • yeshiva • Yiddish • Zionism
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20709-7 / 0691207097
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20709-4 / 9780691207094