{"product_id":"9780253108579","title":"My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"... vital to understanding this period of East European Jewish\u003cbr\u003e history. As Hyman promises, the memoir... read[s] like a novel.\" -- Russian\u003cbr\u003e Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this striking autobiography Puah Rakovsky (1865-1955)\u003cbr\u003e tells of her experiences as a Jewish woman in late 19th- and early 20th-century\u003cbr\u003e Poland who broke with her traditional upbringing to become a professional educator,\u003cbr\u003e Zionist activist, and feminist leader. Her passionate account offers unprecedented\u003cbr\u003e entrée into the life experience of East European Jewry in a period of massive\u003cbr\u003e social change. Published in the original Yiddish in 1954, the work appears here in\u003cbr\u003e English for the first time, annotated and with a historical introduction by Paula E.\u003cbr\u003e Hyman. Born into a rabbinic family in 1865 in Bialystok, then within the Russian\u003cbr\u003e Empire, Rakovsky witnessed the flourishing of a variety of radical political\u003cbr\u003e movements, the birth of Zionism, and the devastation of World War I. No mere\u003cbr\u003e bystander, she was an activist who assumed leadership roles in the public arenas of\u003cbr\u003e education and politics: she founded a pioneering Jewish girls' school in Warsaw and\u003cbr\u003e a national Jewish women's organization in 1920s Poland. In her memoir Rakovsky\u003cbr\u003e reflects on the position of Jewish women in her time and gives her personal and\u003cbr\u003e political perspective on central events of modern Jewish history from her childhood\u003cbr\u003e until her emigration to the Land of Israel in 1935.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47112506802416,"sku":"9780253108579","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780253108579_p0.jpg?v=1763681390","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780253108579","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}