A Price Below Rubies: Jewish Women as Rebels and Radicals

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Why, in the late nineteenth century, did Jewish women suddenly march en masse into the pages of radical history? A Price Below Rubies explores this question and introduces us to these women--particularly, Anna Kuliscioff, Rosa Luxemburg, Esther Frumkin, Manya Shochat, Bertha Pappenheim, Rose Pesotta, and Emma Goldman. Naomi Shepherd's collective biography of these seven women and others tells the story of a revolution that began at home, in communities whose limits stirred women to rebel. Contents Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1 A Footnote to History: Women in Jewish Society before the Enlightenment 2 Singing for the Revolution: Anna Kuliscioff and Other Early Radicals 3 Eight Candles on the Christmas Tree: Rosa Luxemburg as Woman and Jew 4 The Double Rebellion: Esther Frumkin and the Women of the Bund 5 A Radical in Transit: Manya Shochat and the Zionist Women Pioneers 6 The Rebel as Lacemaker: Bertha Pappenheim and the Problem of Jewish Feminism 7 ‘I Need a Violent Strike’: Rose Pesotta and American Jewish Immigrant Unionists Epilogue Notes Index