Melissa R Klapper
Biographic Data
| ID | 3978859 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa R Klapper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa R |
| FAMILY NAME | Klapper |
| SIGNATURE | KLAPPER M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rowan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Send a Woman for It
This article explores American Jewish women's paid work abroad after World War I, focusing on representative women's employment with organizations like the Jewish Welfare Board, the National Council of Jewish Women, and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. American Jewish women, especially middle-class women, benefited from the turn-of-the-century expansion of educational opportunities, and the war also opened doors to new kinds of w…
American Jewish women’s international travel and activism at the turn of the twentieth century
During the decades between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War II, the democratization of travel meant that going abroad became an increasingly common experience for women from all over the United States, including American Jewish women. In an era of international migration, travel as another form of international movement played a role in processes of modernization that helped shape American society. Exploring the travel expe…
The Salome Ensemble
Book Review| October 01 2017 The Salome Ensemble: Rose Pastor Stokes, Anzia Yezierska, Sonya Levien, and Jetta Goudal The Salome Ensemble: Rose Pastor Stokes, Anzia Yezierska, Sonya Levien, and Jetta Goudal. By Alan Robert Ginsberg. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2016. 363 pp. Chronology, notes, bibliography, and index. $65 (cloth); $34.95 (paper). Melissa R. Klapper Melissa R. Klapper Rowan University Melissa R. Klapper is Professor of…
Age in America
Journal Article Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present Get access Ed. by Corinne T. Field and Nicholas L. Syrett. (New York: New York University Press, 2015. viii, 338 pp. Cloth, $89.00. Paper, $28.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Page 167, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw032 Published: 01 June 2016
Catherine Ceniza Choy. Global Families
Catherine Ceniza Choy opens her fine history of Asian international adoption with a vignette at once disturbing and amusing. Although she is herself Asian-American, she was asked at a playground from where she had adopted her daughter. Choy points out that international adoption has become so common that many people assume (foolishly and quite possibly prejudicially) that children with Asian features must have been adopted. In Global Families: A …
Marni Davis. Jews and Booze
Gendering the Fair
Those by Whose Side We Have Labored
In May 1935 Lillian Cantor Dawson took a leave of absence from running the New York social services section of the Workmen's Circle, a Jewish socialist organization, to attend the twentieth anniversary meeting of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (wilpf) in Washington, D.C. A longtime wilpf member, Dawson had come to believe, like many former suffragists, that women were particularly suited to peace work because, as she put i…
The Rabbi's Wife
Journal Article The Rabbi's Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life Get access The Rabbi's Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life. By Schwartz Shuly Rubin. (New York: New York University Press, 2006. xiv, 311 pp. $35.00, isbn0-8147-4016-2.) Melissa R. Klapper Melissa R. Klapper Rowan UniversityGlassboro, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 93, Issue 3, De…
German-Jewish Identities in America
Book Review| January 01 2005 German-Jewish Identities in America German-Jewish Identities in America, Christof Mauch and Joseph Salmons. Melissa R. Klapper Melissa R. Klapper Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (2): 129–130. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501582 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Melissa R. Klapper; German…
Gender, Race, and Nation
Book Review| January 01 2004 Gender, Race, and Nation: A Global Perspective Gender, Race, and Nation: A Global Perspective, Vanaja Dhruvarajan and Jill Vickers. Melissa R. Klapper Melissa R. Klapper Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2004) 23 (2): 91–92. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501424 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Meli…
Gendering the Fair
Those by Whose Side We Have Labored
In May 1935 Lillian Cantor Dawson took a leave of absence from running the New York social services section of the Workmen's Circle, a Jewish socialist organization, to attend the twentieth anniversary meeting of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (wilpf) in Washington, D.C. A longtime wilpf member, Dawson had come to believe, like many former suffragists, that women were particularly suited to peace work because, as she put i…
Gender, Race, and Nation
Book Review| January 01 2004 Gender, Race, and Nation: A Global Perspective Gender, Race, and Nation: A Global Perspective, Vanaja Dhruvarajan and Jill Vickers. Melissa R. Klapper Melissa R. Klapper Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2004) 23 (2): 91–92. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501424 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Meli…
German-Jewish Identities in America
Book Review| January 01 2005 German-Jewish Identities in America German-Jewish Identities in America, Christof Mauch and Joseph Salmons. Melissa R. Klapper Melissa R. Klapper Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (2): 129–130. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501582 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Melissa R. Klapper; German…
The Rabbi's Wife
Journal Article The Rabbi's Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life Get access The Rabbi's Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life. By Schwartz Shuly Rubin. (New York: New York University Press, 2006. xiv, 311 pp. $35.00, isbn0-8147-4016-2.) Melissa R. Klapper Melissa R. Klapper Rowan UniversityGlassboro, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 93, Issue 3, De…
Those by Whose Side We Have Labored
In May 1935 Lillian Cantor Dawson took a leave of absence from running the New York social services section of the Workmen's Circle, a Jewish socialist organization, to attend the twentieth anniversary meeting of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (wilpf) in Washington, D.C. A longtime wilpf member, Dawson had come to believe, like many former suffragists, that women were particularly suited to peace work because, as she put i…
Gendering the Fair
Marni Davis. Jews and Booze
Catherine Ceniza Choy. Global Families
Catherine Ceniza Choy opens her fine history of Asian international adoption with a vignette at once disturbing and amusing. Although she is herself Asian-American, she was asked at a playground from where she had adopted her daughter. Choy points out that international adoption has become so common that many people assume (foolishly and quite possibly prejudicially) that children with Asian features must have been adopted. In Global Families: A …
Age in America
Journal Article Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present Get access Ed. by Corinne T. Field and Nicholas L. Syrett. (New York: New York University Press, 2015. viii, 338 pp. Cloth, $89.00. Paper, $28.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Page 167, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw032 Published: 01 June 2016
The Salome Ensemble
Book Review| October 01 2017 The Salome Ensemble: Rose Pastor Stokes, Anzia Yezierska, Sonya Levien, and Jetta Goudal The Salome Ensemble: Rose Pastor Stokes, Anzia Yezierska, Sonya Levien, and Jetta Goudal. By Alan Robert Ginsberg. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2016. 363 pp. Chronology, notes, bibliography, and index. $65 (cloth); $34.95 (paper). Melissa R. Klapper Melissa R. Klapper Rowan University Melissa R. Klapper is Professor of…
American Jewish women’s international travel and activism at the turn of the twentieth century
During the decades between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War II, the democratization of travel meant that going abroad became an increasingly common experience for women from all over the United States, including American Jewish women. In an era of international migration, travel as another form of international movement played a role in processes of modernization that helped shape American society. Exploring the travel expe…
Send a Woman for It
This article explores American Jewish women's paid work abroad after World War I, focusing on representative women's employment with organizations like the Jewish Welfare Board, the National Council of Jewish Women, and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. American Jewish women, especially middle-class women, benefited from the turn-of-the-century expansion of educational opportunities, and the war also opened doors to new kinds of w…
Sociology (9 works) · History (8 works) · History (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Judaism (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)