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Rewrites Jewish literary modernity from the point of view of women. Focusing on works by interwar Hebrew and Yiddish writers, Allison Schachter illuminates how women writers embraced the transgressive potential of prose fiction to challenge the patriarchal norms of Jewish textual authority and reconceptualize Jewish cultural belonging.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Women, Modernism, and Jewish Modernity
  • Part I. Aesthetic Authority: The Role of Women as Artists
  • 1. The Disruptive Power of Prose
  • 2. Dreaming of Schiller: Fradel Shtok and Aesthetic Desire
  • 3. Translating Emma Bovary: Dvora Baron and Aesthetic Labor in Palestine
  • Part II. New Languages for New Collectivities: The Role of Literature in Cultural Identity
  • 4. The Minority Literature Question
  • 5. Leah Goldberg’s Orientalist Bind
  • 6. Elisheva Bikhovsky’s Minority Cosmopolitanism
  • 7. Dvora Fogel’s Montage Democracy
  • Conclusion: Grace Paley as the Legacy of Hebrew and Yiddish Women's Modernism
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

    Women Writing Jewish Modernity 19191939

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        Publisher: Northwestern University Press
        Publication Date: 12/30/2021 12:00:00 AM
        ISBN13: 9780810144361, 978-0810144361
        ISBN10: 0810144360

        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Rewrites Jewish literary modernity from the point of view of women. Focusing on works by interwar Hebrew and Yiddish writers, Allison Schachter illuminates how women writers embraced the transgressive potential of prose fiction to challenge the patriarchal norms of Jewish textual authority and reconceptualize Jewish cultural belonging.

        Table of Contents
        • Acknowledgements
        • Introduction: Women, Modernism, and Jewish Modernity
        • Part I. Aesthetic Authority: The Role of Women as Artists
        • 1. The Disruptive Power of Prose
        • 2. Dreaming of Schiller: Fradel Shtok and Aesthetic Desire
        • 3. Translating Emma Bovary: Dvora Baron and Aesthetic Labor in Palestine
        • Part II. New Languages for New Collectivities: The Role of Literature in Cultural Identity
        • 4. The Minority Literature Question
        • 5. Leah Goldberg’s Orientalist Bind
        • 6. Elisheva Bikhovsky’s Minority Cosmopolitanism
        • 7. Dvora Fogel’s Montage Democracy
        • Conclusion: Grace Paley as the Legacy of Hebrew and Yiddish Women's Modernism
        • Notes
        • Bibliography
        • Index

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