In America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today, winner of the 2019 Everett Family Foundation’s Jewish Book of the Year (National Jewish Book Awards), Pamela Nadell asks: what does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? Weaving together stories from the colonial era’s matriarch Grace Nathan and her great-granddaughter poet Emma Lazarus to union organizer Bessie Hillman and the great justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Nadell shows two threads binding the nation’s Jewish women: a strong sense of self and a resolute commitment to making the world a better place. Informed by the shared values of America’s founding and Jewish identity, America’s Jewish women –the well-known and the scores of activists, workers, wives, and mothers whose names linger on among their communities and families --left deep footprints in the history of the nation they call home.