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Dwor, Richa, Jewish Feeling: Difference and Affect in Nineteenth-Century Jewish Women’s Writing . New Directions in Religion and Literature, eds. Mark Knight and Emma Mason. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. Pp. ix + 197. $ 86.00 cloth. Although studies of Jews in British literature and culture are plentiful, studies devoted to early Anglo-Jewish authors are extremely rare. That alone makes Richa Dwor’s Jewish Feeling a useful addition to a very short stack of books that includes pioneering studies by Linda Zatlin ( The Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Jewish Novel [1981]) and Michael Galchinsky ( The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer [1996]). Dwor’s project, however, is not a general survey. Instead, she seeks to identify a specific mode of “Jewish affect,” emerging from the practice of midrash (a Rabbinical exegetical strategy that uses narrative to explicate Scriptural problems) that defines and maintains Jewish difference within an otherwise Protestant national space. Dwor founds her analysis on three very different women writers, whose work spans the Victorian period: Grace Aguilar (early Victorian), George Eliot (mid-Victorian), and Amy Levy (late Victorian). As she rightly observes, this span of time saw the nature of Jewish identity itself redefined, as it was tied more tightly to
Religion and the Arts – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2016
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