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SUMMARY:West of the Ghetto: Jewish Women, Old San Francisco, and American Literary Culture, with Lori Harrison-Kahan
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nPlease register to receive the Zoom link for this free online program.\nBlending history, collective biography, and literary criticism, Lori Harrison-Kahan repositions the American West as a generative space for turn-of-the-twentieth-century Jewish women’s literature. West of the Ghetto portrays how California-based writers Emma Wolf, Bettie Lowenberg, Harriet Lane Levy, Miriam Michelson, and Anna Strunsky played formative roles in Jewish American literary history. Shaped by ethno-religious, gender, class, and settler-colonial dynamics of San Francisco and the frontier, their works challenge masculinist views of Jewish literature and contrast dramatically with well-known stories of the New York ghetto. Mining print and archival sources (including newspapers, magazines, novels, letters, diaries, and unpublished writings), Harrison-Kahan narrates the obscured lives of these pioneering women and considers how literary communities–from bourgeois women’s clubs to socialist bohemia–sustained them. With incisive purpose and clear-eyed nuance, West of the Ghetto showcases Jewish women writers’ vital and wide-ranging contributions to American literary culture.\nLori Harrison-Kahan is a professor in the English department at Boston College. She is the editor of multiple books, including Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History, which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Awards, and The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson. She is also the author of The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary and has published widely on Jewish American women’s literature.\n\n\n\n\n
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