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Writing Their Nations: The Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Women Writers

Writing Their Nations: The Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Women Writers

Lichtenstein, Diane

Hardcover

Literary CriticismJudaismWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0253333466
ISBN13: 9780253333469
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Nov 22 1992
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Taking into account their multiple loyalties, this book explores how these Jewish women created their own space and how we interpret their achievements. With a comprehensive bibliography, notes, and an index, this work is essential for scholars, women's and Jewish studies departments, and literary and historical studies. --Library Journal

. . . Lichtenstein has served the fields of American women's and Jewish history well . . . --American Historical Review

This is a fascinating, well-researched book. --Na'amat Woman

A significant record of the relationship of gender and Jewish ethnicity to American literary studies. --Choice

The unique literary tradition of nineteenth-century American Jewish women has been largely ignored. Diane Lichtenstein considers more than twenty-five of these authors, including Emma Lazarus, Rebekah Hyneman, Penina Moise, and Emma Wolf.

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