Jewish Women Writers in Britain by Nadia Valman synced Our thinking about Jewish name

Our thinking about Jewish name changing tends to focus on clichés: ambitious movie stars who adopted glamorous new names or insensitive Ellis Island officials who changed immigrants’ names for them

Valerie Schatzker rescues the almost-forgotten story of the Jews who became the "wildcatters" and oil barons in one of the world's first petroleum industries

The depot built a short-lived lieu de memoire―a “mortuary of books

this book offers a wide-ranging exploration of the key word Jew—a term that lies not only at the heart of Jewish experience

The Jewish role models featured in this book help kids visualize what is possible

Jewish Women Writers in Britain by Nadia Valman synced Our thinking about Jewish nameAgainst 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. Until recently, however, the distinctive experiences and perspectives of Jewish women have been absent from accounts of both British Jewish literature and women's writing in Britain. Drawing on new research in