Michael Galchinsky

By 1833 she had also finished the two books which were eventually published in 1908 as Tales from British History, individually titled Macintosh, the Highland Chief, a Tale of the Civil War, and...

The journal ceased publication after only eleven issues. Although MM claimed she wanted to devote more time to her family and to her school, critic Michael Galchinsky attributes the journal's demise to a censorious act...

CM anonymously published her collection of essays, A Few Words to the Jews. By one of themselves.

Galchinsky notes that two of CM 's works have not survived.

Drawing once more on the romance genre, the Mosses returned to many of the same themes as The Romance of Jewish History, including the conflict between Jewish daughters and their fathers, with its implicit...

Critic Michael Galchinsky notes that the collection expresses a spiritual piety and a yearning for return to Zion. In many of the poems, diasporic Jews (following a question posed in the Psalms about a...

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...

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.Alice F. Jackson published in London and...

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.Benisch's attack, however, proved that such space was ephemeral despite...

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...

As the number of titles published after her death illustrates, GA 's reputation flourished in Britain and in the US into the middle of the twentieth century. In the years following her death, her mother...

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...

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...

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...

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.