{"product_id":"promised-lands-9781479832743","title":"Promised Lands","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow adventurous Jewish women's travels upended Jewish normsIn 1922, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, first initiated the bat mitzvah as a rite-of-passage for Jewish girls. Characterized as a lifelong supporter of women's rights, Kaplan's family, including his wife and four daughters, played a role in shaping his ideas about women, culture, and Zionism. This was especially true of his second daughter, Hadassah Kaplan, who joined a small but influential cohort of American Jewish women who studied, worked, and volunteered in British Mandate Palestine.   Promised Lands provides a window into the lives of American Jewish women in both New York City's Upper West Side and Palestine during the interwar period. By tracing Hadassah's journey, the volume offers a sense of what drew this generation of adventurous women to Palestine, and helps us to understand their impact on American Jewry. Drawing on a rich personal archive of diary entries, photographs, and letter","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040550125911,"sku":"9781479832743","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781479832743.jpg?v=1750947086","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/promised-lands-9781479832743","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}