Jewish Women Writers in Britain

Against a background of enormous cultural change during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, writing by British Jewish women grappled with shifting meanings of Jewish identity, the pressure of social norms, and questions of assimilation. Drawing on new research in Jewish studies, postcolonial criticism, trauma theory and cultural geography, this title examines the ways that these women writers interpreted the experience of living between worlds and imaginatively transformed it for a...
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Against a background of enormous cultural change during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, writing by British Jewish women grappled with shifting meanings of Jewish identity, the pressure of social norms, and questions of assimilation. Drawing on new research in Jewish studies, postcolonial criticism, trauma theory and cultural geography, this title examines the ways that these women writers interpreted the experience of living between worlds and imaginatively transformed it for a wide general readership.