Her Glory All Within: Rejecting and Transforming Orthodoxy in Israeli and American Jewish Women's Fiction

Barbara Landress

Published by Academic Studies Press 2012

Her Glory All Within

Rejecting and Transforming Orthodoxy in Israeli and American Jewish Women's Fiction

Barbara Landress

In the series Studies in Orthodox Judaism

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618111937

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About this book

Representation of the religious sector is a new phenomenon in modern Israeli literature, emerging from a diversification of Israeli culture that began in the 1970s. Barbara Landress here explores the intricacies of fiction about Orthodox women in contemporary contexts, offering a subtle interpretation of the conflicts in Orthodox women’s lives as they weave their way through daughterhood, motherhood, politics, and personal dilemmas, negotiating between tradition and modernity. Drawing on sociology, anthropology, and feminist theory, this body of Israeli women’s writing is considered in comparative perspective with American feminist fiction of the 1960s and 1970s as well as with contemporary American Jewish women’s writing that engages Orthodoxy.

Author / Editor information

Barbara Landress (JD Harvard University, PhD New York University) is the director of graduate affairs at the New York University School of Law.

Reviews

Jill Aizenstein, Ph.D., author of Engaging America: Immigrant Jews in American Hebrew Literature:
“Landress’ pioneering work establishes the roadmap, and provides the key, for women’s literary treatments of orthodoxy in the two largest centers of contemporary Jewish life. This is a must-read, not only for those interested in the fraught relationship between feminism and orthodoxy, but also for those curious about the tensions between national, religious, and gender identities in America and Israel, and the provocative parallels between the two. An elegant and sensitively-drawn dialogue between Israeli Jewish and American Jewish literature, Her Glory All Within is a vital contribution to the study of comparative Jewish literatures.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
TABLE OF CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	V
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
INTRODUCTION Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
CHAPTER ONE. FEMINISM AND ORTHODOXY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER TWO. REPRESENTING ORTHODOXY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
CHAPTER THREE. THE ORTHODOX ROMANCE: VEILED COMPLAINT AND AMBIVALENCE EXTREME IN HANNA BAT SHAHAR Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
CHAPTER FOUR. YEHUDIT ROTEM’S CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING NOVELS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
CHAPTER FIVE. REVALUING THE TRADITIONAL IN AMERICAN JEWISH WOMEN’S WRITING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
CHAPTER SIX. POLITICS, NATIONALISM AND THE SECULAR-RELIGIOUS RIFT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
CHAPTER SEVEN. INCLUSIVITY AND TRANSFORMATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
CONCLUSION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186

Language: English
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 215

eBook

Published: December 1, 2012
ISBN: 9781618111937