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"A nuanced, detailed, and complex description of how the novelistic imagination helped to create Anglo-Jewish Identity...provided a completely original perspective on several familiar Victoria phenomena; domesticity, individualism, and female religious education.""--Catherine Galalgher, University of Califoria, Berkeley Michael Galchinsky's compelling study uncovers a treasure trove of historical concerns and literary efforts previously unknown, glossed over, or ignored. Convincingly demonstrating the profound influence of women's writings in Jewish communal efforts to achieve emancipation and religious reform, he broadens and greatly enriches our understanding of Jews in Victorian England. He also gives us greater appreciation for the romance novel as a political instrument, successfully used by such writers as Maria Polack, Marion Hartog, Celia Moss, and Grace Aguilar.--Ellen M. Umanky, Fairfield University"

A nuanced, detailed, and complex description of how the novelistic imagination helped to create Anglo-Jewish Identity...provided a completely original perspective on several familiar Victoria phenomena; domesticity, individualism, and female religious education. --Catherine Galalgher, University of Califoria, Berkeley Michael Galchinsky's compelling study uncovers a treasure trove of historical concerns and literary efforts previously unknown, glossed over, or ignored. Convincingly demonstrating the profound influence of women's writings in Jewish communal efforts to achieve emancipation and religious reform, he broadens and greatly enriches our understanding of Jews in Victorian England. He also gives us greater appreciation for the romance novel as a political instrument, successfully used by such writers as Maria Polack, Marion Hartog, Celia Moss, and Grace Aguilar.--Ellen M. Umanky, Fairfield University

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Michael Galchinsky received his Ph.D. in English from the University of California at Berkeley. He teaches at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.

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