And Rachel Stole the Idols
Subtitle: The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Women's Writing
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: August 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780814331484
Subjects: Women Authors; Jewish; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Women and literature; History and criticism; 20th century; Hebrew poetry, Modern
Description: "In recognition that there is no single feminist approach, nor a universally accepted definition of gender, this book incorporates a broad range of feminist reading strategies including Anglo-American gynoriticism, French feminist theory, and feminist critical methods in anthropology, biblical studies, and geography. The chapters examine the translated work of women who made early and significant contributions to nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Hebrew literature, ranging from prose writers Sarah Feige Meinkin Foner, Hava Shapiro, Nechama Pukhachevsky, and Devorah Baron to poets Rachel Morpurgo, Rachel Bluwstein, Yokheved Bat-Miriam, Esther Raab, Anda Pinkerfeld-Amir, Shulamit Kalugai, and Leah Goldberg. Along with its scholarship and large number of original translations, And Rachel Stole the Idols makes a contribution to Jewish women's studies and Hebrew literary studies as the first book-length English language study of its kind."--BOOK JACKET.