{"product_id":"west-of-the-ghetto-lori-harrison-kahan-9780814352328","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 Mining print and archival sources (including newspapers, magazines, novels, letters, diaries, and unpublished writings), Harrison-Kahan narrates the obscured lives of these pioneering women and considers how literary communities--from bourgeois women's clubs to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\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814352324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814352328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wayne State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Lori Harrison-Kahan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47425636925695,"sku":"9780814352328","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5ccd6bd1-57b2-4180-b4f7-0219f80faeb2.jpg?v=1761540586","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/west-of-the-ghetto-lori-harrison-kahan-9780814352328","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}