This volume examines the author's family, and their history as early settlers of New England (one ancestor, John Howland, was a deckhand aboard the Mayflower).
In Ways of Wisdom, Jean Friedman traces how Jacob Mordecai and his family, German American Orthodox Jews, adopted the Anglo-Irish enlightened pedagogical system
'A spicy work of biographical conjecture ... It's also a rousing reminder of the countless creative women who have been written out of history or have had to fi