At first blush, Jewish women would seem excellent candidates to embody the era’s dominant theme of women living domestic suburban lives, dissociated from the world of work and wages. After all, most American Jewish women enjoyed the comforts of the middle class, and in numbers greater than non-Jews.

-  Hasia R. Diner, ‎Shira M. Kohn, ‎and Rachel Kranson

In this chapter, I explore conceptions of womanhood and motherhood in the Jewish American cultural context, incorporating displays of archival magazine articles and community cookbooks to illustrate women's lived realities.