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And Prairie Dogs Werent Kosher: Jewish Women In The Upper Midwest Since 1855
by Linda M. Schloff
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press (1996-09-15)
ISBN: 0873513371
EAN: 9780873513371
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 254 pages
SKU: 10060280
Condition: Very Good
DJ Condition: Very Good
Comments: Hardback in very good plus condition with no markings. Dust jacket in very good condition with minor shelf wear. Tight binding and clear crisp text. Very nice book.
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Product Description
This book has its origins in an exhibition, Unpacking on the Prairie: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest, which was organised by the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest and the Minnesota Historical Society and opened in October 1996. Research for the exhibition highlighted many first-person accounts and photographs from a phase of Jewish settlement in America that had been sparsely documented. Linking the personal and the historical, Linda Mack Schloff integrates oral accounts, diaries, letters, and autobiographies with original research and interpretation to present the little-known story of the Jewish experience in America's heartland. 'And Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher' uses the voices of four generations of Jewish women who settled in Minnesota, the Dakotas, Iowa, and Wisconsin to show how they transported and transformed their cultural and religious life in a region inhabited by few Jews.
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