TY - BOOK ID - 69614653 TI - The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer : Romance and Reform in Victorian England PY - 2018 SN - 0814344453 0814344445 PB - Wayne State University Press DB - UniCat KW - Jews in literature. KW - Judaism in literature. KW - Jewish women in literature. KW - Judaism and literature KW - Jews KW - Jewish women KW - Judaism KW - English literature KW - Women and literature KW - History KW - Intellectual life. KW - History and criticism. KW - Women authors KW - Jewish authors KW - Aguilar, Grace, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - British literature KW - Inklings (Group of writers) KW - Nonsense Club (Group of writers) KW - Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) KW - Religions KW - Semites KW - Women, Jewish KW - Women KW - Hebrews KW - Israelites KW - Jewish people KW - Jewry KW - Judaic people KW - Judaists KW - Ethnology KW - Religious adherents KW - Literature and Judaism KW - Literature KW - Women, Jewish, in literature KW - Religion KW - Social groups: religious groups & communities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:69614653 AB - 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. ER -