Women of the word : Jewish women and Jewish writing / edited by Judith R. Baskin.

Other author Baskin, Judith Reesa, 1950-
Format Book
Publication InfoDetroit : Wayne State University Press, ©1994.
Description382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Jewish literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Women in Judaism.
Women in literature.

Contents Women of the word / Judith R. Baskin -- Images of women in medieval Hebrew literature / Judith Dishon -- Finding women's voices in Italian Jewish literature / Howard Adelman -- Yiddish literature and the female reader / Shmuel Niger, translated by Sheva Zucker -- Dvora Baron : daughter of the Shtetl / Ruth Adler -- Culture and radical politics : Yiddish women writers in America, 1890-1940 / Norma Fain Pratt -- Canon and gender : Women poets in two modern Yiddish anthologies / Kathryn Hellerstein -- Looking at Yezierska / Laura Wexler -- Mother at the center : Jewish American women's stories of the 1920's / Janet Burstein -- Matrilineal dissent : the rhetoric of zeal in Emma Lazarus, Marie Syrkin, and Cynthia Ozick / Carole S. Kessner -- Expressing and repressing the female voice in S. Y. Agnon's "In the Prime of Her Life" / Naomi B. Sokoloff -- Naked land : nature in the poetry of Esther Raab / Anne Lapidus Lerner -- Memory and testimony of women survivors of Nazi genocide / Sara R. Horowitz -- Cynthia Ozick : prophet for parochialism / Sarah Blacher Cohen -- Jewish women writers in Latin America / Nora Glickman -- Feminism under siege : the vicarious selves of Israeli women writers / Yael Feldman -- From "data processing" to "sex, car and love later" : the poetry of Maya Bejerano / Miri Kubovy
Local noteLittle-298863--305131004766-
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 94012697
ISBN0814324223 (alk. paper)
ISBN0814324231 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PN842 .W66 1994 ✔ Available Place Hold