The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women

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Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman is a research fellow at the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton, UK, where she also teaches in the English Department. She has published widely on Victorian-Anglo-Jewish literature, has co-edited three books on the representation of Jews in British and European culture, and is author of The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture. She is editor of the journal Jewish Culture and History.

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Writers in Victorian England

Spurred to publish initially as a response to the concerted campaigning of Christian conversionists, women writers were the first Anglo-Jews to produce literature on Jewish themes in England. By the end of the nineteenth century, literature by Jewish women had expanded to encompass not only works defensive of the dignity and rights of Anglo-Jewry, but also satirical novels critical of the community’s materialism and marriage practices.