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Based on the women's own writings, this engaging study demonstrates their intellectual proclivities and social activities, as well as their attitudes to marriage and religion.

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'Fascinating, in-depth analysis . . . important, comprehensive, and engaging.' Yemima Chovav, Nash 'Ably demonstrates that women played a significant role within the history of enlightenment thinking and activity within the Jewish community . . . The author argues that there is more to the history of the Jewish Enlightenment than the male-dominated Haskalah. Naimark-Goldberg posits that the female-centred Enlightenment of the end of the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century constituted another legitimate strand of the Jewish Enlightenment, despite its difference in focus.' David Tesler, AJL Reviews Reviews 'A major contribution to German Jewish history and to gender studies ... It becomes clear that ... Jewish women participated in the European Enlightenment as well, although usually in a different and unique way ... [Naimark-Goldberg] enhances our view of the history of German Jewry and Jewish women, the processes of modernization and secularization, and the cultural history of the Jews at the onset of modern times.' Shmuel Feiner, Bar Ilan University 'This book is of great interest and significance. Dr Naimark-Goldberg's approach is part of a newer historiographical tradition in the study of women and culture. Her book takes a new angle of research and makes a significant contribution to understanding Jewish women's history and Jewish culture as a whole.' Shulamit Magnus, Oberlin College

`Fascinating, in-depth analysis . . . important, comprehensive, and engaging.' - Yemima Chovav, Nash 'Ably demonstrates that women played a significant role within the history of enlightenment thinking and activity within the Jewish community . . . The author argues that there is more to the history of the Jewish Enlightenment than the male-dominated Haskalah. Naimark-Goldberg posits that the female-centred Enlightenment of the end of the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century constituted another legitimate strand of the Jewish Enlightenment, despite its difference in focus.'- David Tesler, AJL Reviews 'A major contribution to German Jewish history and to gender studies ... It becomes clear that ... Jewish women participated in the European Enlightenment as well, although usually in a different and unique way ... [Naimark-Goldberg] enhances our view of the history of German Jewry and Jewish women, the processes of modernization and secularization, and the cultural history of the Jews at the onset of modern times.' Shmuel Feiner, Bar Ilan University 'This book is of great interest and significance. Dr Naimark-Goldberg's approach is part of a newer historiographical tradition in the study of women and culture. Her book takes a new angle of research and makes a significant contribution to understanding Jewish women's history and Jewish culture as a whole.'- Shulamit Magnus, Oberlin College

'A major contribution to German Jewish history and to gender studies ... It becomes clear that ... Jewish women participated in the European Enlightenment as well, although usually in a different and unique way ... [Naimark-Goldberg] enhances our view of the history of German Jewry and Jewish women, the processes of modernization and secularization, and the cultural history of the Jews at the onset of modern times.' Shmuel Feiner, Bar Ilan University 'This book is of great interest and significance. Dr Naimark-Goldberg's approach is part of a newer historiographical tradition in the study of women and culture. Her book takes a new angle of research and makes a significant contribution to understanding Jewish women's history and Jewish culture as a whole.' Shulamit Magnus, Oberlin College 'Ably demonstrates that women played a significant role within the history of enlightenment thinking and activity within the Jewish community ... The author argues that there is more to the history of the Jewish Enlightenment than the male-dominated Haskalah. Naimark-Goldberg posits that the female-centred Enlightenment of the end of the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century constituted another legitimate strand of the Jewish Enlightenment, despite its difference in focus.' David Tesler, AJL Reviews 'Fascinating, in-depth analysis ... important, comprehensive, and engaging.' Yemima Chovav, Nash

'A major contribution to German Jewish history and to gender studies . . . It becomes clear that . . . Jewish women participated in the European Enlightenment as well, although usually in a different and unique way . . . [Naimark-Goldberg] enhances our view of the history of German Jewry and Jewish women, the processes of modernization and secularization, and the cultural history of the Jews at the onset of modern times.' Shmuel Feiner, Bar Ilan University 'This book is of great interest and significance. Dr Naimark-Goldberg's approach is part of a newer historiographical tradition in the study of women and culture. Her book takes a new angle of research and makes a significant contribution to understanding Jewish women's history and Jewish culture as a whole.' Shulamit Magnus, Oberlin College 'Ably demonstrates that women played a significant role within the history of enlightenment thinking and activity within the Jewish community . . . The author argues that there is more to the history of the Jewish Enlightenment than the male-dominated Haskalah. Naimark-Goldberg posits that the female-centred Enlightenment of the end of the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century constituted another legitimate strand of the Jewish Enlightenment, despite its difference in focus.' David Tesler, AJL Reviews 'Fascinating, in-depth analysis . . . important, comprehensive, and engaging.' Yemima Chovav, Nashim

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Natalie Naimark-Goldberg is Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Prussia Research Fellow at Bar-Ilan University. She is the co-editor, with Shmuel Feiner, of Cultural Revolution in Berlin: Jews in the Age of Enlightenment (2011). Her fields of research include the history of Jewish women in the modern period, modern German Jewish history, and the history of the Jewish Enlightenment in Germany.

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