From Anglo-First-Wave towards American Second-Wave Jewish Feminism : : Negotiating with Jewish Feminist Theology and its Communities in the Writing of Amy Levy / / Luke Devine.
This book completely redefines our understanding of fin de siècle Anglo-Jewish author Amy Levy and her writing. Demonstrating that Levy’s writing is less anti-Judaic and more profoundly influenced by the religious concerns of classical German Reformism, Luke Devine's innovative approach reveals...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Judaism in Context
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FROM ANGLO-FIRST-WAVE TO AMERICAN SECOND-WAVE JEWISH FEMINISM: INTRODUCTION -- 1. AMY LEVY: SHORT BIOGRAPHY, HISTORIOGRAPHY, AND OVERVIEW OF JEWISH FEMINIST THEOLOGY -- 2. “A PRAYER,” MIDRASH, AND SECOND-WAVE JEWISH FEMINIST SPIRITUALITY AND THEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE -- 3. AMY LEVY’S MIDRASHIC POETRY: “A GREEK GIRL” AND “MAGDALEN” -- 4. AMY LEVY’S REUBEN SACHS, PROTO-FEMINISM, AND REFORM JUDAISM -- 5. MESSIANIC REDEMPTION, THE BOOK OF JUDITH, AND THE MEGILLAH IN REUBEN SACHS -- FROM ANGLO-FIRST-WAVE TOWARDS THIRD-WAVE JEWISH-FEMINISM: CONCLUSION -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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Summary: | This book completely redefines our understanding of fin de siècle Anglo-Jewish author Amy Levy and her writing. Demonstrating that Levy’s writing is less anti-Judaic and more profoundly influenced by the religious concerns of classical German Reformism, Luke Devine's innovative approach reveals that Levy's writing constitutes a genre whose female subjectivity evinces a concern for justice and authority that prefigures numerous aspects of Second-Wave Jewish feminist theory and its spiritual and theological underpinnings. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781463229450 9783111024141 9783110663037 |
DOI: | 10.31826/9781463229450 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Luke Devine. |