{"product_id":"west-of-the-ghetto-jewish-women-old-san-francisco-and-american-literary-culture-9780814352311","title":"West of the Ghetto: Jewish Women, Old San Francisco, and American Literary Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eRepositioning women writers of the American West as formative to Jewish literature.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending history, collective biography, and literary criticism, author Lori Harrison-Kahan repositions the American West as a generative space for turn-of-the-twentieth-century Jewish women's literature. This book demonstrates that California-based writers Emma Wolf, Bettie Lowenberg, Harriet Lane Levy, Miriam Michelson, and Anna Strunsky played formative roles in Jewish American literary history. Shaped by ethno-religious, gender, class, and settler-colonial dynamics of San Francisco and the frontier, their works challenge masculinist views of Jewish literature and contrast dramatically with well-known stories of the New York ghetto. Mining print and archival sources (including newspapers, magazines, novels, letters, diaries, and unpublished writings), Harrison-Kahan narrates the obscured lives of these pioneering women and considers how literary communities--from bourgeois women's clubs to socialist bohemia--sustained them. With incisive purpose and clear-eyed nuance, \u003ci\u003eWest of the Ghetto \u003c\/i\u003eshowcases Jewish women writers' vital and wide-ranging contributions to American literary culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lori Harrison-Kahan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wayne State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 5.99w x 1.11d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814352311","brand":"Wayne State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45486758330505,"sku":"9780814352311","price":96.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_fce7a50f-9f9b-4df1-88fb-fe6ed2e572d7.jpg?v=1775543188","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/west-of-the-ghetto-jewish-women-old-san-francisco-and-american-literary-culture-9780814352311","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}