"In this significant work, the distinguished historian of the American Jewish experience, Jacob Rader Marcus, brilliantly narrates the 300-year history of the American Jewish woman. With a style that is at once both scholarly and popular, provoking and explanatory, Professor Marcus challenges the standard chronicles of American Jewry which have consistently ignored the history of American Jewish women. As the author states in the preface to this book: 'There can be no question: there is an American Jewish women's history that goes back to September, 1654.'"--Book Jacket.