This is the first in-depth biography of Rebecca Gratz (1781-1869), the foremost American Jewish woman of the nineteenth century. Perhaps the best-known member o

A groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history. What does

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced

An unusually extensive picture of the life of a well-to-do single Jewish woman from Philadelphia is presented in the letters of Rebecca Gratz (1781-1869) to her