Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press, 1996.
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Cultural formation | Grace Aguilar | GA
's writings treat in detail the Jewish faith to which she strongly adhered, and she often focuses on the persecution and prejudice which Jews suffered throughout the nineteenth century, as well as historically. As... |
Education | Marion Moss | |
Education | Celia Moss | Little is known of CM
's education. Scholar Michael Galchinsky
(who later wrote of her for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) describes her family's household as secularizing . . . for their father... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Montefiore | CM
moved in a considerably higher stratum of society than her contemporary Grace Aguilar
. It is possible, however, that they corresponded during their collaboration for the Cheap Jewish Library. In a letter to... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Grace Aguilar | Critic Michael Galchinsky
reads the story as a response to the more feminist treatment of cross-dressing in the stories of Marion
and Celia Moss
. GA
describes her heroine as having disobeyed the positive command... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Grace Aguilar | Michael Galchinsky
argues that GA
abandoned her earlier favourite genre of historical romance in favour of domestic fiction because of the transgressive or utopian tendencies of the romance genre in English. These tendencies had been... |
Literary responses | Marion Moss | An Athenæum review criticized the collection, claiming the sisters neglected the really romantic annals and legends of their nation and erroneously represented Jewish life: [T]hough the names and scenery are Jewish and Eastern, the manners... |
Literary responses | Grace Aguilar | Critic Michael Galchinsky
argues that, in accordance with her own belief in the separation of spheres, GA
in The Authoressis able to defend her writing as other-directed domestic labor, and therefore short-circuits in advance... |
Literary responses | Grace Aguilar | Recently, GA
's work has garnered significant critical attention from scholars Michael Ragussis
and Michael Galchinsky
, the latter of whom argues: Grace Aguilar did not resist but spoke the contradictions of her culture, and... |
Literary responses | Charlotte Montefiore | A recent commentator, Michael Galchinsky
, notes that this work is historically interesting and passionate in its defense of poor Jews, but reveals a lack of interest on her part in the details of aesthetics. Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press, 1996. 175 |
Literary responses | Charlotte Montefiore | In an article in the Jewish Chronicle two years afterCM
died, Abraham Benisch
wrote in praise of nineteenth-century Jewish women writers. He asserted that it is a remarkable phenomenon on the horizon of Anglo-Jewish... |
Reception | Celia Moss | Galchinsky
suggests that in Westernising their tales the Mosses sought to engender greater sympathy from non-Jewish readers, a motive the Athenæum also acknowledges. Galchinsky argues further that the sisters' appropriation of the romance genre, in... |
Reception | Grace Aguilar | Despite harsh critical reception, the book was very popular. It went through numerous editions in Britain (eighteen by 1905) and in the US into the early twentieth century. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Reception | Marion Moss | The journal received early and encouraging public support and became what Galchinsky
calls a security zone, a women-only space, a place of female independence. Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press, 1996. 79 |
Reception | Grace Aguilar | Some accused GA
, on grounds of her emphasis on spirit rather than form, of being a Jewish Protestant. However, she was very well received by many in the Jewish community, and even those... |
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