A Price Below Rubies: Jewish Women as Rebels and Radicals by Naomi Shepherd non-media and other firsthand accounts

and other firsthand accounts

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A Price Below Rubies: Jewish Women as Rebels and Radicals by Naomi Shepherd non-media and other firsthand accountsWhy, in the late nineteenth century, did Jewish women suddenly march en masse into the pages of radical history? A Price Below Rubies explores this question and introduces us to these womenparticularly, Anna Kuliscioff, Rosa Luxemburg, Esther Frumkin, Manya Shochat, Bertha Pappenheim, Rose Pesotta, and Emma Goldman. Naomi Shepherds collective biography of these seven women and others tells the story of a revolution that began at home, in communities