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The Spectrum: A Scholars Day Journal, V. 9, Issue 1, Fall 2025
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Fall 2025
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2025-11
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Women of diverse backgrounds are largely absent from immigration history archives. Immigration history as a field emerged parallel with that of women’s history in the 1970s as part of the New Social History movement, and both disciplines began writing immigration histories. This paper identifies areas of difficulty among these two disciplines with respect to the integration of women within immigration histories. A key area of disagreement amongst these two groups is a focus on the public sphere (immigration historians) and the private sphere (women’s historians). This conflict is analyzed within the context of Jewish immigrant women from 1880 - 1920 by comparing differing approaches of three different scholarly works. This paper assesses approaches and methodologies from leading scholars in the field on how to close the gap. This paper argues usage of the culture category of analysis has the most promise with respect to integrating women by taking various components of identity into consideration. This paper also suggests expanding the definition of community to include the study of the private sphere may allow for more inclusive immigration histories that represent the experiences of women.
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