Hyman (Jewish history, Yale U.) revises earlier analyses of Jewish assimilation by focusing on women in the domestic as well as public realms. Surveying Jewish accommodations to new conditions in Europe and the US between 1850 and 1950, she retrieves the experience of women as reflected in their memoirs, newspapers and journal articles, and texts of speeches, and finds that Jewish women's patterns of assimilation differed from men's. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.