Intimations of Difference: Dvora Baron in the Modern Hebrew Renaissance »

Sheila E. Jelen is assistant professor of English and Jewish studies at the University of Maryland. She has written articles and reviews in numerous publications including Hebrew Studies, AJS Review, Jewish Quarterly Review, Tikkun, and J Books. She is the associate editor of Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History.

An examination of the only woman to achieve recognition in the canon of modern Hebrew fiction during the Modern Hebrew Renaissance (1881-1921).

Illustrations     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
A Critical Preface     xv
Introduction: Intimations and Imperatives-A Biography Through the Looking Glass     xxiii
All Writers Are Jews, All Jews Are Men: The Autobiographical Imperative     1
Strange Sympathy: The Talush Imperative     25
Things as They Are: The Mimetic Imperative     51
She Sermonizes in Wool and Flax: The Vernacular Imperative     79
Burying the Books: The Intertextual Imperative     99
Epilogue: Breaking Down the Door     127
Appendixes
Two Translations and a Note: "In What World?" and "As a Driven Leaf"     139
Dvora Baron-A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Works     173
Notes     187
Works Cited     209
Index     227