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For the first time in over a century, this edition makes available the work of the most important Jewish writer in early and mid-Victorian Britain. Grace Aguilar (1816-1847) broke new literary ground by writing from the unique perspective of an Anglo-Jewish woman. Aguilar's writing responds to English representations of Jews and women by writers such as Felicia Hemans, Maria Edgeworth, Sir Walter Scott, and Thomas Macaulay. She both assimilates and alters the genres of historical romance, dramatic monologue, domestic fiction, history, and midrash, among others.
This edition includes Aguilar's novella The Perez Family in its entirety; the Sephardic historical romance "The Escape," her Sephardic historical romance, "History of the Jews in England," the first such history ever written by a Jew; major poems; excerpts from The Women of Israel; and Aguilar's Frankfurt journal, never before published. Also included are primary source materials such as writings on "the Jewish question" from Aguilar's non-Jewish contemporaries, tributes and memoirs, and contemporary responses to her work.
Contents
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction
Significance
Biography
Literary and Historical Contexts
Critical Reception
Grace Aguilar: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
I. Fiction
"The Escape"
"The Perez Family"
"The Spirit of Night"
II. Poetry
"Sabbath Thoughts III"
"An Hour of Peace"
"A Poet's Dying Hymn"
"Song of the Spanish Jews, During their 'Golden Age'"
"A Vision of Jerusalem, While Listening to a Beautiful Organ in one of the Gentile Shrines"
"The Address to the Ocean"
"The Hebrew's Appeal, On Occasion of the Late Fearful Ukase Promulgated by the Emperor of Russia"
"Dialogue Stanzas"
"The Wanderers"
"The Rocks of Elim"
III. Non-Fiction Prose
from The Spirit of Judaism
[Our Hearts Must Breathe from Our Lips]
[The Bible as Foundation and Defense]
[The Hebrew's Neglect of the Bible]
[A Minority's Faith and Observance]
[Hints on the Religious Instruction of the HebrewYouth]
[The Significance of the Hebrew Language]
[The Value of Profane History and Fiction]
[The Spirit and the Forms of Judaism
Considered Separately and Together]
from The Women of Israel
"Introduction"
"Sarah"
"Miriam"
"Deborah"
from The Jewish Faith
from Sabbath Thoughts and Sacred Communings
"Preface"
"Morning Meditation"
"Prayer for the Government of the Thoughts"
From "The Prophecies of Isaiah"
"History of the Jews in England"
Appendix A: Victorian Tributes
Testimonial from the Misses Levison and Isaacs
Abraham Benisch, Obituary
Isaac Leeser, Obituary
Athenaeum, Obituary
Tribute by the Ladies Of the Society for theReligious Instruction Of Jewish Youth, Charleston
Marion Hartog,"Lines Written on the Death ofGrace Aguilar"
Anna Maria Hall, From "A Pilgrimage to the Grave ofGrace Aguilar"
Rebecca Gratz, Letters to Miriam Gratz Cohen
Appendix B: Victorian Criticism
Isaac Leeser,"Editor's Preface" to Spirit of Judaism
Jacob Franklin, Review of Spirit of Judaism, from Voice of Jacob
Review of The Women of Israel, from Athenaeum
Review of Home Influence, from Howitt's Journal
Abraham Benisch, Review of Imrei Lev, from Jewish Chronicle
Sarah Aguilar, Correspondence with Miriam and Solomon Cohen on Sabbath Thoughts and Sacred Communings
Appendix C: Romantic and Victorian Reflections on "The Jewish Question"
George Gordon, Lord Byron,"Jephthah's Daughter" (1815)
Walter Scott, From Ivanhoe (1819)
William Wordsworth,"The Jewish Family" (1828)
Thomas Babington Macaulay, from "Speech on Jewish Disabilities" (1831)
Sarah Stickney Ellis, from Women of England (1838)
Felicia Hemans,"The Song of Miriam" (1839)
Appendix D: Victorian Jewish Writers
Morris Raphall,"ldquo;The Sun and the Moon" (1834)
Marion and Celia Moss, from Early Efforts (1839)
Abraham Benisch,"Our Women" (1861)
Appendix E: Aguilar's Frankfurt Journal
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