Jewish Women Writers in Britain

Jewish Women Writers in Britain

Author: Nadia Valman

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2014-12-01

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 081433914X

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The extraordinary range of responses to Jewish culture and history in the work of these writers will appeal to literary scholars and readers interested in Jewish women's history.


Women of the Word

Women of the Word

Author: Judith Reesa Baskin

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780814324233

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While individual essays reveal literary discoveries of self and forgings of identity by women rising to the opportunities and challenges of drastically altered Jewish social realities, a significant number also show the sad decline of women writers upon whom silence was reimposed. Several chapters consider how Jewish women were depicted by male writers from the Middle Ages through the mid-nineteenth century.


Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust

Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust

Author: P. Lassner

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-08-20

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 0230227368

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In its analysis of Anglo-Jewish women writing the Holocaust, this book highlights the necessity of their inclusion in the evolving canon of modern British literature, by showing how these writers complicate theories of trauma and memory by using fantasy and the Gothic as a response to silence.


"In the Open"

Author: Claire M. Tylee

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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This collection consists of essays by Jewish women in Britain, contributed by twelve scholars from the fields of contemporary British literature and Jewish studies. Amongst them they cover a range of topics: popular fiction (including romances and lesbian fiction); the 'Woman's Novel'; multicultural literature; and post-Holocaust writing.


Arguing with the Storm

Arguing with the Storm

Author: Rhea Tregebov

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13:

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From the shtetl to the Holocaust, lost voices from a rich and lively tradition.


The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer

The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer

Author: Michael Galchinsky

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2018-02-05

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 0814344453

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Analyses the development of Jewish women's writing in relation to Victorian literary history, women's cultural history, and Jewish cultural history. Between 1830 and 1880, the Jewish community flourished in England. During this time, known as haskalah, or the Anglo-Jewish Enlightenment, Jewish women in England became the first Jewish women anywhere to publish novels, histories, periodicals, theological tracts, and conduct manuals. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer analyzes this critical but forgotten period in the development of Jewish women's writing in relation to Victorian literary history, women's cultural history, and Jewish cultural history. Michael Galchinsky demonstrates that these women writers were the most widely recognized spokespersons for the haskalah. Their romances, some of which sold as well as novels by Dickens, argued for Jew's emancipation in the Victorian world and women's emancipation in the Jewish world.


Writing Jewish

Writing Jewish

Author: Ruth Gilbert

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2013-12-04

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 113737473X

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British-Jewish writers are increasingly addressing challenging questions about what it means to be both British and Jewish in the twenty-first century. Writing Jewish provides a lively and accessible introduction to the key issues in contemporary British-Jewish fiction, memoirs and journalism, and explores how Jewishness exists alongside a range of other different identities in Britain today. By interrogating myths and stereotypes and looking at themes of remembering and forgetting, belonging and alienation, location and dislocation, Ruth Gilbert examines how these writers identify the particularity of their difference – while acknowledging that this difference is neither fixed nor final, but always open to re-interpretation.


Feeling Jewish

Feeling Jewish

Author: Devorah Baum

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2017-08-22

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0300231342

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In this sparkling debut, a young critic offers an original, passionate, and erudite account of what it means to feel Jewish—even when you’re not. Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother-Love. In this witty, insightful, and poignant book, Devorah Baum delves into fiction, film, memoir, and psychoanalysis to present a dazzlingly original exploration of a series of feelings famously associated with modern Jews. Reflecting on why Jews have so often been depicted, both by others and by themselves, as prone to “negative” feelings, she queries how negative these feelings really are. And as the pace of globalization leaves countless people feeling more marginalized, uprooted, and existentially threatened, she argues that such “Jewish” feelings are becoming increasingly common to us all. Ranging from Franz Kafka to Philip Roth, Sarah Bernhardt to Woody Allen, Anne Frank to Nathan Englander, Feeling Jewish bridges the usual fault lines between left and right, insider and outsider, Jew and Gentile, and even Semite and anti-Semite, to offer an indispensable guide for our divisive times.


Voices of the Diaspora

Voices of the Diaspora

Author: Thomas Nolden

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2005-10-21

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 0810122227

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Voices of the Diaspora offers, for the first time, representative works by major Jewish women writers from Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Russia. These stories and essays, written over the last twenty-five years, speak to the challenges confronting the post-Shoah generations of Jews living in Europe: a need to commemorate the lives extinguished in the camps; a desire to repair a ruptured culture; and a determination to reclaim a Jewish identity resistant to assimilation and the threats of anti-Semitism. At the same time, these writers address themes specific to their national contexts. Berlin-born Barbara Honigmann questions the possibility of Jewish life in the country responsible for the "final solution." Maghreb-born Marlène Amar and Reina Roffé address the experiences of displacement and emancipation as Sephardic women in Western, post-colonial societies. Clara Sereni describes how Jews in post-Fascist Italy reemerged with a self-assertiveness that troubled a society that had found comfort in amnesia. Ludmila Ulitskaya portrays a Jewish girlhood on the eve of Stalin's death empowered by the religious traditions of Jewish resistance. From the unique perspective of women's literary voices, this volume reveals to English-speaking readers the extraordinary vivacity and diversity of European Jewry, and introduces them to a new generation of women writers.