From Anglo-First-Wave Towards American Second-Wave Jewish Feminism: Negotiating with Jewish Feminist Theology and Its Communities in the Writing of Amy Levy

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This book completely redefines our understanding of fin de si�cle Anglo-Jewish author Amy Levy and her writing. Demonstrating that Levy's writing is less anti-Judaic and more profoundly influenced by the religious concerns of classical German Reformism, Luke Devine's innovative approach reveals that Levy's writing constitutes a genre whose female subjectivity evinces a concern for justice and authority that prefigures numerous aspects of Second-Wave Jewish feminist theory and its spiritual and theological underpinnings. TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FROM ANGLO-FIRST-WAVE TO AMERICAN SECOND-WAVE JEWISH FEMINISM: INTRODUCTION 1. AMY LEVY: SHORT BIOGRAPHY, HISTORIOGRAPHY, AND OVERVIEW OF JEWISH FEMINIST THEOLOGY 2. “A PRAYER,” MIDRASH, AND SECOND-WAVE JEWISH FEMINIST SPIRITUALITY AND THEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE 3. AMY LEVY’S MIDRASHIC POETRY: “A GREEK GIRL” AND “MAGDALEN” 4. AMY LEVY’S REUBEN SACHS, PROTO-FEMINISM, AND REFORM JUDAISM 5. MESSIANIC REDEMPTION, THE BOOK OF JUDITH, AND THE MEGILLAH IN REUBEN SACHS FROM ANGLO-FIRST-WAVE TOWARDS THIRD-WAVE JEWISH-FEMINISM: CONCLUSION GLOSSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX