Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (2 vol. set). Edited by Paula E. Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore. Sponsored by the American Jewish Historical Society.

This set makes a wonderful bat mitzvah gift.

It contains 800 biographies of fascinating and important American Jewish women who excelled in such diverse activities s music, politics, social activism, literature, art, the labor movement, science, medicine, film, religion, education, and many others. Also included are 110 topical essays that include histories of all the major Jewish women's organizations as well as entries on such topics as Jewish women in the film industry, in music, in art, and in the teaching profession.