Front cover image for The JPS guide to Jewish women : 600 B.C.E.to 1900 C.E.

The JPS guide to Jewish women : 600 B.C.E.to 1900 C.E.

Print Book, English, 2003
Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 2003
Biographies
xxviii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780827607521, 0827607520
1036172917
Ch. 1. Buried Treasures: Archeological Evidence from the Ancient Near East
Ch. 2. A Written Legacy: Literary Evidence from the Ancient Near Fast to 600 C.E
Ch. 3. Jewish Women Under Islam: The Near East, North Africa, and Spain to 1492
Ch. 4. Further from Home: Jewish Women in Christian Europe to 1492
Ch. 5. A Separate Community: Jewish Women in Italy until the 1800s
Ch. 6. European Jewry Moves East: The Early Modern Period (1492-1750)
Ch. 7. A Difference Voice: Jewish Women in the Lands of Islam (1492-1750)
Ch. 8. Opening Doors: Jewish Women During and After Haskalah (1750-1900)
Ch. 9. Jewish Women in the New World: From the First Settlement until 1900
"A JPS desk reference."