A Jewish Feminine Mystique?: Jewish Women in Postwar America

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments — ix Introduction hasia r. diner, shira kohn, and rachel kranson — 1 1 “Some of Us Were There before Betty”: Jewish Women and Political Activism in Postwar Miami raymond a. mohl — 13 2 The Polishness of Lucy S. Dawidowicz’s Postwar Jewish Cold War nancy sinkoff — 31 3 “Our Defense against Despair”: The Progressive Politics of the National Council of Jewish Women after World War II kathleen a. laughlin — 48 4 “It’s Good Americanism to Join Hadassah”: Selling Hadassah in the Postwar Era rebecca boim wolf — 65 5 “A Lady Sometimes Blows the Shofar”: Women’s Religious Equality in the Postwar Reconstructionist Movement deborah waxman — 87 6 Beyond the Myths of Mobility and Altruism: Jewish Immigrant Professionals and Jewish Social Welfare Agencies in New York City, 1948–1954 rebecca kobrin — 105 7 Negotiating New Terrain: Egyptian Women at Home in America audrey nasar — 126 8 The Bad Girls of Jewish Comedy: Gender, Class, Assimilation, and Whiteness in Postwar America giovanna p. del negro — 144 vii 9 Judy Holliday’s Urban Working-Girl Characters in 1950s Hollywood Film judith smith — 160 10 The “Gentle Jewish Mother” Who Owned a Luxury Resort: The Public Image of Jennie Grossinger, 1954–1972 rachel kranson — 177 11 Reading Marjorie Morningstar in the Age of the Feminine Mystique and After barbara sicherman — 194 12 “We Were Ready to Turn the World Upside Down”: Radical Feminism and Jewish Women joyce antler — 210 13 Jewish Women Remaking American Feminism/ Women Remaking American Judaism: Reflections on the Life of Betty Friedan daniel horowitz — 235 Biographies of Contributors — 257 Index — 259 contents viii ...