In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia

by Eliyana R. Adler

Overview

Scholars of Jewish history, educational history, and womens’ studies will enjoy this pathbreaking study.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814334928
Publisher:	Wayne State University Press
Publication date:	12/08/2010
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Eliyana R. Adler is Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of the award-winning books Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union (2020) and In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia (2011) and the co-editor of several works. Dr. Adler has published articles in numerous journals and edited volumes and held prestigious fellowships.

Editorial Reviews

By asking the right questions and knowing where to find the right answers, In Her Hands by Eliana Adler succeeds in integrating Jewish women into the narrative of the nineteenth-centry Jewish and Russian history. Adler wisely utilizes the story of Jewish women's education to transform our understanding of Russian-Jewish modernization.

professor of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University - Moshe Rosman

Adler's research is broad and deep. She has scoured archives in both Russia and at YIVO to bring to bear a detailed record of Jewish girls schools, a little known subject of historical study."

professor of Jewish history at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion - Carole B. Balin