{"product_id":"west-of-the-ghetto-jewish-women-old-san-francisco-and-american-literary-culture-9780814352328","title":"West of the Ghetto: Jewish Women, Old San Francisco, and American Literary Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eRepositioning women writers of the American West as formative to Jewish literature.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending history, collective biography, and literary criticism, author Lori Harrison-Kahan repositions the American West as a generative space for turn-of-the-twentieth-century Jewish women's literature. This book demonstrates that 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 Mining print and archival sources (including newspapers, magazines, novels, letters, diaries, and unpublished writings), Harrison-Kahan narrates the obscured lives of these pioneering women and considers how literary communities--from bourgeois women's clubs to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, \u003ci\u003eWest of the Ghetto \u003c\/i\u003eshowcases Jewish women writers' vital and wide-ranging contributions to American literary culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLori Harrison-Kahan is a professor in the English department at Boston College. She is the editor of multiple books, including \u003ci\u003eMatrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Awards, and \u003ci\u003eThe Superwoman and Other Writings \u003c\/i\u003eby Miriam Michelson (both Wayne State University Press). She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eThe White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary\u003c\/i\u003e and has published widely on Jewish American women's literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wayne State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52173882491154,"sku":"9780814352328","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e901581d-98c8-4489-a67c-b1c054babde0.jpg?v=1775557356","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/west-of-the-ghetto-jewish-women-old-san-francisco-and-american-literary-culture-9780814352328","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}