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Grace Aguilar: Selected Writings » (1st Edition)

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Authors: Grace Aguilar, Michael (Ed.) Galchinsky
ISBN-13: 9781551113777, ISBN-10: 1551113775
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Broadview Press
Date Published: April 2003
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Grace Aguilar

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments9
Introduction11
Grace Aguilar: A Brief Chronology48
A Note on the Text52
"The Escape"61
The Perez Family87
"The Spirit of Night"180
"Sabbath Thoughts III"189
"An Hour of Peace"191
"A Poet's Dying Hymn"193
"Song of the Spanish Jews, During their 'Golden Age'"195
"A Vision of Jerusalem, While Listening to a Beautiful Organ in One of the Gentile Shrines"196
"The Address to the Ocean"198
"The Hebrew's Appeal, On Occasion of the Late Fearful Ukase Promulgated by the Emperor of Russia"200
"Dialogue Stanzas"202
"The Wanderers"204
"The Rocks of Elim"206
from The Spirit of Judaism215
[Our Hearts Must Breathe from Our Lips]215
[The Bible as Foundation and Defense]215
[The Hebrew's Neglect of the Bible]217
[A Minority's Faith and Observance]219
[Hints on the Religious Instruction of the Hebrew Youth]222
[The Significance of the Hebrew Language]228
[The Value of Profane History and Fiction]231
[The Spirit and the Forms of Judaism Considered Separately and Together]234
from The Women of Israel247
"Introduction"247
"Sarah"257
"Miriam"281
"Deborah"290
from The Jewish Faith301
from Sabbath Thoughts and Sacred Communings307
"Preface"307
"Morning Meditation"307
"Prayer for the Government of the Thoughts"308
from "The Prophecies of Isaiah"309
"History of the Jews in England"313
App. AVictorian Tributes355
App. BVictorian Criticism364
App. CRomantic and Victorian Contexts372
App. DVictorian Jewish Writers383
App. EAguilar's Frankfurt Journal390
Select Bibliography409

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