
Published online:
18 January 2018
Published in print:
02 October 2017
Online ISBN:
9781469635934
Print ISBN:
9781469635910
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The Lessons of the Pale: Sex, Ethnicity, and Class The Lessons of the Pale: Sex, Ethnicity, and Class
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Immigrant Mothers and Daughters in New York City, 1890–1907 Immigrant Mothers and Daughters in New York City, 1890–1907
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Chapter
Prologue. From the Russian Pale to the Lower East Side: The Cultural Roots of Four Jewish Women’s Radicalism
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Published:October 2017
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Orleck, Annelise, 'From the Russian Pale to the Lower East Side: The Cultural Roots of Four Jewish Women’s Radicalism', Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and WoOrleck, Anneliserking-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965, 2nd edn (Chapel Hill, NC , 2017; online edn, North Carolina Scholarship Online, 18 Jan. 2018), https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469635910.003.0010, accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter traces the roots of East European Jewish women’s Socialism, feminism and labor radicalism in the Eastern European towns and cities where they were born during the late 19th century. It then follows Schendierman, Newman, Lemlich and Cohn as they moved to New York City and became involved in labor and women’s subsistence activism.
Keywords:
Eastern Europe, Lower East Side, immigrant mothers and daughters, socialism, rent strikes, Marx, Book of Isaiah
Subject
History of the Americas
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