Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History: The Roles and Representation of WomenPaula Hyman broadens and revises earlier analyses of Jewish assimilation, which depicted "the Jews" as though they were all men, by focusing on women and the domestic as well as the public realms. Surveying Jewish accommodations to new conditions in Europe and the United States in the years between 1850 and 1950, she retrieves the experience of women as reflected in their writings memoirs, newspaper and journal articles, and texts of speeches and