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Childhood and immigrants : changing ideas at the turn of the century -- Infancy and early childhood -- Grade school years -- Adolescence -- After the doors closed: the effects of restrictive legislation and the depression -- The meaning of immigrant children's experiences

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations of Organization Names -- Introduction -- 1 "We Jewish Women Should Be Especially Interested 18 in Our New Citizenship" -- 2 "I Started to Get Smart, Not to Have So Many Children" -- 3 "We United with Our Sisters of Other Faiths in Petitioning for Peace" -- 4 "They Have Been the Pioneers" -- 5 "Where the Yellow Star Is" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920 draws on a wealth of archival material, much of which has never been published-or even read-to illuminate the ways in which Jewish girls' adolescent experiences reflected larger issues relating to gender, ethnicity, religion, and education.Klapper explores the dual roles girls played as agents of acculturation and guardians of tradition. Their search for an identity as American girls that would not require the abandonment of Jewish tradition and culture mirrored the struggle of their families and communities for integration into American society.While focusing on their lives as girls, not the adults they would later become, Klapper draws on the papers of such figures as Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah; Edna Ferber, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Showboat; and Marie Syrkin, literary critic and Zionist. Klapper also analyzes the diaries, memoirs, and letters of hundreds of other girls whose later lives and experiences have been lost to history.Told in an engaging style and filled with colorful "es, the book brings to life a neglected group of fascinating historical figures during a pivotal moment in the development of gender roles, adolescence, and the modern American Jewish community

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Toward Political Agency for Girls: Mapping the Discourses of Girlhood Globally -- Introduction -- 1. American Jewish Girls and the Politics of Identity, 1860–1920 -- 2. Growing Up in Colonial Algeria: The Case of Assia Djebar -- 3. Immigrant Girls in Multicultural Amsterdam: Juggling Ambivalent Cultural Messages -- 4. Feminist Girls, Lesbian Comrades: Performances of Critical Girlhood in Taiwan Pop Music -- Introduction -- 5. Girlhood Memories and the Politics of Justice in Post-Rosas Argentina: The Restitution Suit of Olalla Alvarez -- 6. "A Case of Peculiar and Unusual Interest": The Egg Inspectors Union, the AFL, and the British Ministry of Food Confront "Negro Girl" Egg Candlers -- 7. "Life Is a Succession of Disappointments": A Soviet Girl Contends with the Stalinist Dictatorship -- 8. Fragilities and Failures, Promises and Patriotism: Elements of Second World War English and American Girlhood, 1939–1945 -- 9. Holy Girl Power Locally and Globally: The Marian Visions of Garabandal, Spain -- 10. Rebels, Robots, and All-American Girls: The Ideological Use of Images of Girl Gymnasts during the Cold War -- Introduction -- 11. Palestinian Girls and the British Missionary Enterprise, 1847–1948 -- 12. "The Right Kind of Ambition": Discourses of Femininity at the Huguenot Seminary and College, 1895–1910 -- 13. Stolen Girlhood: Australia's Assimilation Policies and Aboriginal Girls -- 14. Fathers, Daughters, and Institutions: Coming of Age in Mombasa's Colonial Schools -- 15. Mothers of Warriors: Girls in a Youth Debate of Interwar Iraq -- 16. "'Homemaker' Can Include the World": Female Citizenship and Internationalism in the Postwar Camp Fire Girls -- Introduction -- 17. From Chattel to "Breeding Wenches": Abolitionism, Girlhood, and Jamaican Slavery -- 18. Girls, Labor, and Sex in Precolonial Egypt, 1850–1882 -- 19. Defiant Daughters and the Emancipation of Minors in Nineteenth-Century Mexico -- 20. The Shifting Status of Middle-Class Malay Girlhood: From "Sisters" to "Sinners" in One Generation -- Contributors -- Index