The Journey Home: Jewish Women and the American Century.

The Journey Home: Jewish Women and the American Century. By Joyce Antler. New York: The Free Press, 1997. xviii + 410 pp. Photographs, bibliographic references, and index. $27.50

In The Journey Home, Joyce Antler tells vivid and moving stories about the lives of over fifty prominent Jewish women who lived in the United States in the twentieth century. The portraits are well researched and highlight the lives of women who have often been neglected in other works about the history of Jews in America.

Antler divides the work into three distinct historical periods: 1890-1930, where she focuses on Jewish women's immigration and assimilation, the development of the …