Writing Their Nations

<p>Taking into account their multiple loyalties this book explores how these Jewish women created their own space and how we interpret their achievements. With a comprehensive bibliography notes and an index this work is essential for scholars women's and Jewish studies departments and literary and historical studies. --Library Journal<br /><br /> . . . Lichtenstein has served the fields of American women's and Jewish history well . . . --American Historical Review<br /><br />This is a fascinating well-researched book. --Na'amat Woman<br /><br />A significant record of the relationship of gender and Jewish ethnicity to American literary studies. --Choice<br /><br />The unique literary tradition of nineteenth-century American Jewish women has been largely ignored. Diane Lichtenstein considers more than twenty-five of these authors including Emma Lazarus Rebekah Hyneman Penina Moise and Emma Wolf.</p>