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Dr. Lindsay Katzir

Extracts from ‘Children of the Ghetto’ by Israel Zangwill

In this session, we will focus on the novel’s subplot of Hannah, the daughter of a deeply pious rabbi named Reb Shmuel, and her engagement entanglement. The subplot is about this marriage issue, but it’s also about Hannah’s internal struggle with Judaism and Jewish practice. Hannah’s predicament doesn’t cause her to question her father’s faith; it exacerbates the doubt she already feels. Her story is covered in 4 chapters: Vol. 1: “The Redemption of the Son and Daughter” and “The Purim Ball” and Vol. 2 “The Shadow of Religion” and “Seder Night.” 

You can find a copy of the text here: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12680/pg12680.txt

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Tarini Bhamburkar

‘Indian Lady Graduates’ from Indian Ladies Magazine

Between Feb and March 1902, the editor of the Indian Ladies’ Magazine invited Indian women to write a series of articles on ‘Indian Lady Graduates’ or ‘Is the Indian Lady Graduate a Failure?’. These were produced as a rebuttal to a scathing article by a man named Alfred Nundy, published in a previous issue, which demanded that women stick to the kitchen rather than going to university. The women’s essays, both humorously and critically oppose Nundy’s opinions. They read like a miscellaneous collection of critical essays by women defending Indian women’s right to education, and also their opposition to Victorian notions of domesticity and the nationalist appropriation of women’s social reform.

Professor Nadia Butt (Goethe Universität, Frankfurt)