ABSTRACT
This paper will suggest that in the period between 1880 and 1930 an important change took place in the centrality of women's domestic practices to Jewish religious life. Whereas in Eastern Europe, in the nineteenth century, women's religious activities within the home were viewed as relatively peripheral to the fundamental concerns of Jewish religion, a shift took place in twentieth-century Britain, so that these same activities developed as core reference-points in the form and maintenance of Jewish identity.
