The American Jewess described itself as "the only magazine in the world devoted to the interests of Jewish women." It was the first English-language periodical targeted to American Jewish women, covering an evocative range of topics that ranged from women's place in the synagogue to whether women should ride bicycles.

History

Founded and edited by Rosa Sonnenschein

Rosa Sonnenschein

Rosa Sonneschein was the founder and editor of The American Jewess magazine. It was the first English-language periodical targeted to American Jewish women.-Personal life:...

 (1847–1932), it offered the first sustained critique, by Jewish women, of gender inequities in Jewish worship and communal life.

Online

Assembled and digitized for online access by the Jewish Women's Archive, 8 volumes of The American Jewess were assembled from the collections of Hebrew Union College

Hebrew Union College

The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is the oldest extant Jewish seminary in the Americas and the main seminary for training rabbis, cantors, educators and communal workers in Reform Judaism.HUC-JIR has campuses in Cincinnati, New York, Los Angeles and Jerusalem.The Jerusalem...

-Jewish Institute of Religion Klau Library, Brandeis University

Brandeis University

Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...

 Libraries, the Library of Congress

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...

, and the Jewish Women's Archive.

External links

• All issues – from the University of Michigan
  University of Michigan
  The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
  
  Humanities Text Initiative.