The Women of Israel (1845 Aguilar), book
The Women of Israel (1845) is a book by Grace Aguilar.
Abstract
This account of the lives of Jewish women is considered the masterpiece of the Jewish author. Grace Aguilar was an accomplished poetess, novelist and writer on Jewish history and religion. Her work includes portraits of Jewish women from the Bible to the modern age.
"Grace Aguilar (1818-1847), a prolific nineteenth-century novelist and Jewish historian of Sephardic descent, was better known for her works of fiction, but in this 1845 publication she addresses Jewish history from a female perspective. These two volumes consist of a series of biographical essays on Old Testament, Talmudic and modern Jewish women. Aguilar identifies a need for more female biography of scripture, postulating a continuity between the biblical matriarchs and the Jewish women of her generation. Addressing a female readership, Aguilar writes in a didactic and highly evangelical tone characteristic of the period, using her historical discussion to argue for the emancipation of Jews, particularly Jewish women, who should also have full access to all Jewish religious texts. This second volume focuses on Aguilar's latter four periods of history."--Publisher description.
Editions
Published in New York, NY: D. Appleton & Co.; Philadelphia : G.S. Appleton, 1845.
Contents
External links
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