Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press.
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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... |
Textual Features | Celia Moss | Critic Michael Galchinsky
notes that the collection expresses a spiritual piety and a yearning for return to Zion. Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press. 113 |
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... |
Textual Features | Celia Moss | 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... |
Education | Marion Moss | |
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... |
Textual Production | Marion Moss | 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... |
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. 79 |
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... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Montefiore | Galchinsky
notes that two of CM
's works have not survived. Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press. 130 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Montefiore | CM
anonymously published her collection of essays, A Few Words to the Jews. By one of themselves. All known library catalogues date the first edition 1853. A second edition appeared in 1855. The few... |
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... |
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. 175 |
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... |
Textual Production | Grace Aguilar | 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... |
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