She depicts an astonishing range of individuals: an Arab woman who hates Jews and their acquisition of land, yet would never dream of selling to a fellow-Arab if a Jew would give her more money...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Gladys Henrietta Schütze
The Straight Road begins with the sensitive David Waterlow at Liverpool Street Station in London, depressed because he is saying goodbye to his friend Geoffrey, becoming fascinated by a young woman clearly in deep...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Zadie Smith
Zen Buddhism
as well as Judaism
directs the searching of Alex's sceptical, deeply unhappy nature. His friend Adam (who consumes more pot and less booze) is both earnestly Jewish and effortlessly Zen. Fifteen years after...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Hélène Cixous
The book is a kind of kaleidoscope of splintered biography and textual commentary, emphasizing its subject's Jewish
heritage. It uses Derrida
's confessions, published ten years earlier as a gloss for another text altogether...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Rosita Forbes
This is partly a book about change and modernization. RF
welcomed particularly the stamping out of tribal conflict and corruption in Iran, and the tolerance newly extended to Jews
, Christians
, and Zoroastrians
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Monica Furlong
Here MF
describes a visit to the New London Synagogue
, sponsor of this publication. She writes of her delight in the singing, with its extraordinary vitality, spontaneity, and tragic beauty, the naturalness and informality...
Gordon the champion of Protestantism converted to Judaism
in 1786.
De Bruyn, Frans. “Anti-Semitism, Millenarianism, and Radical Dissent in Edmund Burke’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Reflections on the Revolution in France</span>”;. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
34
, No. 4, pp. 577-00.
585
De Fleury, Maria. Poems. R. Denham.
title-page
Textual Features
Naomi Alderman
The story is set in Oxford in the year 1221, six years after a statute decreed that to guard against ethnic mixing, Jews in Britain were to wear a large patch on the front of...
Family and Intimate relationships
Naomi Jacob
NJ
's father, Samuel Jacob
, had started life in Germany, the country to which his father had fled as a boy from Poland, after his parents were killed in pogroms. Longer ago...
Cultural formation
Denise Levertov
Her parents belonged to the educated, professional middle class, and were practising Christians within the Church of England
, where (even to a teenager beginning to experience doubts) the services were beautiful with candlelight and...
Cultural formation
Amy Levy
Her time in Dresden crystallized her mixed feelings about the practice of her religion
. Visiting the synagogue (for Yom Kippur) disgusted her: she said that German Jews made her feel anti-semitic.
Pullen, Christine. The Woman Who Dared: A Biography of Amy Levy. Kingston University Press.
45
Zion unventilated...
Cultural formation
Harold Pinter
Brought up in the observance of Judaism
, HPrenounced religion as soon as his bar mitzvah was over, although his Jewish identity continued to be important to him.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
He became in maturity a determinedly...
Cultural formation
Gladys Henrietta Schütze
Her family were British members of prosperous, successful Jewry. In 1884 D'Israeli
had only been dead four years and tolerance was very much the order of the day. So that anti-semitism was at a very...
Armitstead, Claire. “Naomi Alderman. A life in . . ”. theguardian.com.
whose solidly professional circumstances were not far removed from working-class backgrounds. She has said, too, that she had a fundamentalist religious upbringing.
“Foyles”. Naomi Alderman. About the Author.
Her father wrote that...
Cultural formation
Maya Angelou
MA
and her brother were giggling and occasionally disruptive members of the congregation of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church
in Stamps, Arkansas; she tells a hilarious comic story about a sister in the congregation who...
Timeline
6 June 1391: A hostile mob of armed Christians mounted...
National or international item
6 June 1391
A hostile mob of armed Christians
mounted an attack on the Jewish
quarter of Seville in Spain.
2006: Naomi Alderman won the Orange Prize for her...
Women writers item
2006
Naomi Alderman
won the Orange Prize for her first novel, Disobedience, set in the North LondonOrthodox Jewish
community.