...dimension to a central narrative of the American Jewish experience by presenting the conflicts of acculturation and cultural retention through the historical prism of Jewish female adolescence. Melissa R. Klapper's extensively researched study covers the sixty-year span from roughly the Civil War through World War I, describing how Jewish girls encountered and responded to shifting expectations for their roles in family and society. In great detail, Klapper weaves together the experiences of Jewish girls aged twelve to twenty from across class strata to create a collective story of adolescents relating to the...

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