Read about the often forgotten Jewish roots of International Women's Day, and women's history month at large.
Like many children of Soviet refugees, I grew up celebrating the 8th of March as International Women's Day. It was an odd socialist vestige, one that even refugees-of-communism turned diehard-capitalists wouldn't let go of. It was a day for extravagant bouquets, kitschy e-cards and tacky toasts, honoring the valiant women in every family. Since then, the day has largely been co-opted by marketers, corporate messengers, and social justice activists alike.
The novel fashioned a mythological heroine out of Mary, a young girl activist for workers’ rights; in it, she described the grueling daily lives of Lower East Side working women. According to the late feminist scholar François Basch, Malkiel chose to make the protagonist a “free-born American” — that is, not an immigrant like herself, or most of the girls she met in the sweatshops — possibly due to “her fear of anti-Semitic reactions from middle-class WASP readers.
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