2022 MELINDA ROSENBLATT LECTURE | Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919–1939 Recorded Live Via Zoom on May 1, 2022 What role did women play in the making of Jewish modernity? Standard accounts of modern history and literary culture describe the process of Jews becoming modern as a story of Jews becoming men. As a result we know too little about women writers, artists, and intellectuals who participated in transforming Jewish culture in the twentieth century. Allison Schacter offers a counter history of Jewish modernity by looking at the women writers, in the interwar period, who embraced the transgressive potential of prose...
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