Defiant Muse: Feminist Hebrew Poetry.

From: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life andThought | Date: June 22, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

"TEN PORTIONS OF SPEECH CAME DOWN TO THE WORLD--nine of them were women's," according to a Hebrew maxim in one of the texts of the rabbis of Late Antiquity. The opposite, however, seems to be true of writing. Although the Hebrew language takes pride in an uninterrupted written tradition of at least twenty-five hundred years, there are few texts prior to the nineteenth century which are unequivocally attributed to women among the "People of the Book."

Our mapping of women's Hebrew poetry is indebted to the recent expanding contribution of feminist critics, and is based on a ...

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