Michael Galchinsky

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...

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...

Little is known is about MM 's formal education. However, according to critic Michael Galchinsky , her father entertained the family by reading romantic poetry as the women sat and sewed, including Byron 's Childe...

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...

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...

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...