REWRITING HEBREW CHARACTERS: Poetic Midrash by Women and Men

<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>REWRITING HEBREW CHARACTERS: Poetic Midrash by Women and Men</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="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="id101.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="JEWISH WOMEN POETS:Imagining Israel, 183"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Jewish Women Poets: Imagining Israel, 1830-1998</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>Rewriting Hebrew Characters: Poetic </B></I><B>Midrash</B><I><B> by Women and Men</B></I></div> <bR> <div>     Jews' recent engagement in rewriting Bible stories, scenes, and  perspectives to find new roots, both religious and political, has its modern origins in early 19th century poetry.  Writers have shaped our heritage by active revision---and remade tradition by considering history, gender, and Biblical psychology to generate new social attitudes.  Their <I><B>midrashim</B></I><B> </B>treat conceptions of the family, the Ingathering of the Exiles, and the Holocaust and <I><B>aliyah.</B></I> The present interest in <I><B>midrashim</B></I> about our matriarchs and patriarchs is partly a response to the wholesale destruction of families during the Shoah. </div> <bR> <div>     19th and 20th century writers such as: <I><B>Penina Moise, Rebekah Hyneman, Marion Moss, Adah Isaacs Menken, Isaac Rosenberg, Louis Untermeyer, Babette Deutsch,  Karl Shapiro, Delmore Schwartz, Karen Gershon, Eleanor Wilner</B></I> and others.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>