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.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Devine, Luke,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Judaism in Context
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (282 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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