Bonnie J. Morris is Visiting Assistant Professor at George Washington University. Her previous work includes The High School Scene in the Fifties: Voices from West L.A.

"Morris carefully peels the layers of complexity and contradiction surrounding the ultra-Orthodox world in relation to secular society and feminism. Most importantly, she explains the tension between gender and ethnic affiliation in this Hasidic, post-Holocaust context. There is no room for dismissal of these women in Morris's writing, because she documents their struggle to seek fulfillment—surely a form of liberation—as they define it. The book is respectful, critical and analytical, and contains an armload of insight about the interplay of feminism and anti-feminism in this brief history of a community." — Jeanne Henry, Hofstra University

• Acknowledgments Introduction: A Feminist Historian's Intentions 1. A Woman of Valor, Who Can Find? 2. Educate a Child According to His Ways 3. Ingathering Those That Were Far Away: The Neshei Chabad Conventions 4. Everything Emanates from the Woman 5. Whatever Is Happening in the Gentile World Is Reflected in the Jewish World: Reactions to Feminism 6. We Must Live with the Times Glossary of Yiddish and Hebrew Terms Notes Hasidic Historiography Bibliography Index

Bonnie J. Morris is Visiting Assistant Professor at George Washington University. Her previous work includes The High School Scene in the Fifties: Voices from West L.A.

"Morris carefully peels the layers of complexity and contradiction surrounding the ultra-Orthodox world in relation to secular society and feminism. Most importantly, she explains the tension between gender and ethnic affiliation in this Hasidic, post-Holocaust context. There is no room for dismissal of these women in Morris's writing, because she documents their struggle to seek fulfillment—surely a form of liberation—as they define it. The book is respectful, critical and analytical, and contains an armload of insight about the interplay of feminism and anti-feminism in this brief history of a community." — Jeanne Henry, Hofstra University

• Acknowledgments Introduction: A Feminist Historian's Intentions 1. A Woman of Valor, Who Can Find? 2. Educate a Child According to His Ways 3. Ingathering Those That Were Far Away: The Neshei Chabad Conventions 4. Everything Emanates from the Woman 5. Whatever Is Happening in the Gentile World Is Reflected in the Jewish World: Reactions to Feminism 6. We Must Live with the Times Glossary of Yiddish and Hebrew Terms Notes Hasidic Historiography Bibliography Index

Bonnie J. Morris is Visiting Assistant Professor at George Washington University. Her previous work includes The High School Scene in the Fifties: Voices from West L.A.

"Morris carefully peels the layers of complexity and contradiction surrounding the ultra-Orthodox world in relation to secular society and feminism. Most importantly, she explains the tension between gender and ethnic affiliation in this Hasidic, post-Holocaust context. There is no room for dismissal of these women in Morris's writing, because she documents their struggle to seek fulfillment—surely a form of liberation—as they define it. The book is respectful, critical and analytical, and contains an armload of insight about the interplay of feminism and anti-feminism in this brief history of a community." — Jeanne Henry, Hofstra University

• Acknowledgments Introduction: A Feminist Historian's Intentions 1. A Woman of Valor, Who Can Find? 2. Educate a Child According to His Ways 3. Ingathering Those That Were Far Away: The Neshei Chabad Conventions 4. Everything Emanates from the Woman 5. Whatever Is Happening in the Gentile World Is Reflected in the Jewish World: Reactions to Feminism 6. We Must Live with the Times Glossary of Yiddish and Hebrew Terms Notes Hasidic Historiography Bibliography Index