"[3] Specifically, “middle-class Jews of both sexes were emulating the folkways of the WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) community but were not integrated into it.

They dressed, entertained and furnished their homes according to the patterns set by the majority but they celebrated different holidays and often found themselves unwelcome in gentile society.

Some of the perspectives best reflected in the periodical are the editorials released by Rosa Sonneschein, the editor and creator of the magazine from the start and end of its publication.

"[7] In the midpoint of the magazines life, “April, 1897,” the American Jewess published a piece in support of the “New York City teachers who were fighting for equal pay.

"[7] For example, she acknowledged the “progressive position of Reform Judaism in its liturgy and rituals, particularly for its replacement of the Bar Mitzvah ceremony” due to the fact that it “ignored the role of girls, with the occasion of confirmation, which included them.