JEWISH WOMEN POETS:Imagining Israel, 1830-1998

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="039f0f21egerdp.jpg"> <div> <B>JEWISH WOMEN POETS:Imagining Israel, 1830-1998</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="038f2f02egerdp.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="lecture_teaching.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lecture/Teaching Topics for Adults"><U><B>Lecture/Teaching Topics for Adults</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id65.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Teenager Education Topics "><U><B>Teenager Education Topics</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ISRAEL"><U><B>Israel</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id89.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="IMAGINING PALESTINE AND ISRAEL: Poems by"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Imagining Palestine</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="REWRITING HEBREW CHARACTERS: Poetic Midr"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Poetic Midrash by Women and Men</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id90.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="KING DAVID AND THE IDEA OF JEWISH POETRY"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">King David and the Idea of Jewish Poetry</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id102.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THROUGH THE EYES OF MUSLIMS AND JEWS: th"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Through the Eyes of Jews: the Muslim and Arab World</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact JEWISH VOICES"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Contact JEWISH VOICES</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jewish Voices 200 Years of Jewish Poetry"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Home</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03bf0f03.jpg"> <div> <I><B>Jewish Women P</B></I><I><B>oets: Imagining Israel, 1830-1998</B></I></div> <bR> <div>    When the Anglo-Jewish poet Arthur Jacobs (d. 1994) wrote that Jewish poets had kept the idea of Israel alive, he neglected to acknowledge any of the women who initiated and sustained this major tradition in 19th and 20th century poetry.  This workshop focuses on Jewish women's mythmaking efforts to envisage, in diaspora, the "real" or renovated Palestine (or Israel)--a territory  difficult to visit before statehood.  Questioning the values of imaginary pilgrimages to Palestine, evoking Hebrew characters to stand as revivified emblems of the lost ancient culture, using women's "sentiment" for political purposes, Jewish women write poems that actively engage Zionist myths. </div> <div>       </div> <div>     Poems by <I><B>Grace Aguilar, Celia and Marion Moss, Jesse Sampter,</B></I><I><B> </B></I><I><B>Babette Deutsch, Adrienne Rich, Elaine Feinstein</B></I>, and others.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>