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Religion’s role in social reform, and especially in women’s entry into public life; missions to re-Christianise the poor and convert the Jews; Christian and Jewish women’s roles in their respective religious institutions; Jewish women’s writings on Judaism for their own community and for the host society.
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Summers, A. (2017). Women and Men in a Religious Landscape: Britain in the Late Nineteenth Century. In: Christian and Jewish Women in Britain, 1880-1940. Palgrave Critical Studies of Antisemitism and Racism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42150-6_2
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