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Becoming American: Jewish women immigrants 1880-1920.
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- Author(s): Schreier, Barbara
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History Today. Mar94, Vol. 44 Issue 3, p25. 7p. 9 Black and White Photographs.
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Reflects on how the dress customs of Jewish women escaping from pogroms in Eastern Europe changed as part of their assimilation as Americans. Custom of wearing sheitels (wigs) on the Sabbath; Abraham Cahan's story of `Yekl, A Tale of the New York Ghetto'; Jewish emigres and the emphasis that was placed on `looking American'; Anzia Yezierka's autobiographical novel `Bread Givers'; The corset as part of the acculturation process.
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