Her Glory All Within

Rejecting and Transforming Orthodoxy in Israeli and American Jewish Women's Fiction

AvBarbara Landress

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

Del i serien Studies in Orthodox Judaism

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Beskrivning

Representation of the religious sector is a new phenomenon in modern Israeli literature, emerging from a diversification of Israeli culture that began in the 1970s. Barbara Landress here explores the intricacies of fiction about Orthodox women in contemporary contexts, offering a subtle interpretation of the conflicts in Orthodox women's lives as they weave their way through daughterhood, motherhood, politics, and personal dilemmas, negotiating between tradition and modernity. Drawing on sociology, anthropology, and feminist theory, this body of Israeli women’s writing is considered in comparative perspective with American feminist fiction of the 1960s and 1970s as well as with contemporary American Jewish women’s writing that engages Orthodoxy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-12-20
Mått:155 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:485 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Orthodox Judaism
Antal sidor:215
Förlag:Academic Studies Press
ISBN:9781618111715

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Barbara Landress (JD Harvard University, PhD New York University) is the director of graduate affairs at the New York University School of Law.

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“Landress’ pioneering work establishes the roadmap, and provides the key, for women’s literary treatments of orthodoxy in the two largest centers of contemporary Jewish life. This is a must-read, not only for those interested in the fraught relationship between feminism and orthodoxy, but also for those curious about the tensions between national, religious, and gender identities in America and Israel, and the provocative parallels between the two. An elegant and sensitively-drawn dialogue between Israeli Jewish and American Jewish literature, Her Glory All Within is a vital contribution to the study of comparative Jewish literatures.”