Women of the Word

Women of the Word
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Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : 0814324231
ISBN-13 : 9780814324233
Rating : 4/5 (233 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Women of the Word by : Judith Reesa Baskin

Download or read book Women of the Word written by Judith Reesa Baskin and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While individual essays reveal literary discoveries of self and forgings of identity by women rising to the opportunities and challenges of drastically altered Jewish social realities, a significant number also show the sad decline of women writers upon whom silence was reimposed. Several chapters consider how Jewish women were depicted by male writers from the Middle Ages through the mid-nineteenth century.


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