• Acknowledgments
• The Female Experience of Immigration
• Male Initiative: Immigration as Breakup or Unification of the Family • Female Initiative: Immigration as a Quasi-monastic Experience • The Experience of Self-Sacrifice: Sanctification of Suffering • Identification with Jewish Historical Reference
• Pilgrimage to the Holy Places: Immigration within Immigration • Hilulot: Festivities at Saints' Gravesides • Rachel's Tomb as the Culmination of Women's Immigration • A New Reality
• Princess or Prisoner? Marriage as a Female Experience
• Marriage as a Necessity: The Power of the Community • Marriageable Age • Matchmaking: A Deal, A Quick Look. and Agreement • Intercommunal Marriages as a Two-Way Street • The Dowry • The Engagement Ceremony • The Wedding Celebrations • Captive Under the Wedding Canopy • Women at Home • Women's Clothing: Private and Public Aspects
• The Home: Physical Space and Its Influence on Women's Lives • Marital Relationships as a Mirror of Perception of Family
• Childbirth and the Newborn • Mothers and Children • Divorce: Dissolution of the Family Unit
• The Gender-Shaping Aspect of Jerusalem Regulations • Women in the Public Sphere: Religious, Economic, and Philanthropic Involvement
• The "Women's Section" as Symbol of Their Activity in the Public Sphere • Economic Life in Jerusalem • Women in Business • Women in Menial Occupations
• Women in Health Services • Form Domestic Handiwork to Home Industry • Women in Education as a Channel of Modernization
• Wealthy Women • Philanthropy as Women's Path to the public Sphere • Charitable Institutions: Women in Voluntary Social Work • Hospitalilty as Creation of Life • Ezrat Nashim in Jaffa: The Beginnings of Women's Self-Organization • Ezrat Nashim in Jerusalem: Women of Women • Ezrat Nashim as a Modernizing Force in Jerusalem
• Economics and Philanthropy Pave the Way for Women in Public Service • Scholarship, Illiteracy, and Educational Revolution
• Learned Women in Jerusalem • The Education of Jewish Girls: Tradition and Revolution • Rothschild and Montefiore: First Experiments on Education • Educational Initiatives in Jerusalem • Evelina de Rothschild School, 1868-1894: "Bits of Education" or a "Real School"? • The Anglo-Jewish Association: Girls' Education as a Path to Western-Style Progress • Evelina de Rothschild School, 1894-1914: Flagship of AJA • An Integrative Educational Institution • Evelina de Rothschild School: Society and Gender • Ultra-Orthodox Educaion for Girls before Beis Ya'akov • On the Margins of Society: Poverty, Widowhood, Husband Desertion, Prostitution, Missionary Efforts
• A City of Poverty • Begging Letters • Widows • Agunot (Deserted Wives) • Prostitution • The Threat of the Mission • Help from the Mission: Medicine, Employment, Education • Conversion • Combating the Mission: Society's Attitude to Its Periphery • Women: The 'Margins" of the "Margins" • Epilogue: The Female Experience in Jerusalem: Honing Historical-Cultural Insights
• The Unique Jerusalem Character • The Female Jerusalemite: Another Look at the perception of Women in Judaism • Gender and the Fall of the Old Yishuv: The Link between the Old and the New Yishuv
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index