Zierler: And Rachel Stole the Idols
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And Rachel Stole the Idols: The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Women’s Writing

Wendy I. Zierler
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Contents

  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Translation and Transliteration
  • Introduction
    • Stealing the Idols of Hebrew Literary Culture
    • The Emergence of Feminist Hebrew Literary Studies
  • 1. A History of Jewish Women’s Writing
    • The Haskalah Poetry of Rachel Morpurgo
    • Hebrew Women Writers of the Russian Haskalah: Sarah Feige Meinkin Foner and Hava Shapiro
    • Border-Crossings: Hebrew Women Writers in the Promised Land
    • Anxieties of Authorship: The Example of Yokheved Bat-Miriam
  • 2. “Hidden Flames”: Hebrew Women Poets and the Search for Foremothers
    • The World According to Eve
    • Matriarchal Voices: Rachel as Biblical Namesake
    • Deborah: Political and Poetic Precursor
    • Resurrecting Miriam
    • Hannah’s Prayer, Hannah’s Poetry
    • Suppressed Voices: Hagar as Poetic Foremother
    • Multicultural Voices: Leah Goldberg’s “Ahavatah shel Teresa de Meun”
  • 3. My Mother, My Land: Female Personifications of the Land of Israel in Hebrew Women’s Poetry
    • The Poet and the Motherland: Rachel’s Poetic “Aftergrowth”
    • The Androgynous Vision of Esther Raab
    • Yokheved Bat-Miriam’s Erets Yisra’el
  • 4. Barrenness, Babies, and Books: The Barren Woman in Hebrew Women’s Writing
    • Devorah Baron’s “Mishpahah”
    • Rachel Bluwstein’s “‘Akarah”
    • Anda Pinkerfeld-Amir’s “‘Akarah”
    • Nehamah Puhachevsky’s “Asonah shel Afyah”
  • 5. “In What World?”: Transgressed Boundaries and Female Community in Early Hebrew Women’s Fiction
    • “Wasn’t Rachel a Shepherdess?”: Sarah Feige Meinkin Foner’s Transgressive Passages
    • Hava Shapiro’s Clipped Wings
    • Exile and Community in the Fiction of Devorah Baron
  • 6. The Rabbi’s Daughter in and out of the Kitchen: Feminist Literary Negotiations
    • Pots, Pans, and Poetry: Rachel Morpurgo’s “Anaseh akh hapa‘am”
    • Baking Memories: Baron’s “Mah shehayah”
    • Zelda’s “Hedra shel ima hu’ar”
  • Afterword
  • Appendix: Erets Yisra’el, by Yokheved Bat-Miriam
  • Notes
  • Biographies of Poets and Writers
  • Index