GRACE AGUILAR

<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>GRACE AGUILAR </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="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jewish Womens Poetry"><U><B>Jewish Women</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id59.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="EMMA LAZARUS (18491887) and JewishAmeric"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Emma Lazarus</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id60.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="JEWISH WOMEN POETS: Imagining Israel, 18"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Imagining Israel</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id88.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="IMMIGRATION: Jewish Womens Poetry"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Immigration: Jewish Women Poets</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id61.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH AND JEWISH WOMENS POETRY "><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The </B></U></A><A HREF="id61.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH AND JEWISH WOMENS POETRY "><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A><A HREF="id61.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH AND JEWISH WOMENS POETRY "><U><B> and Jewish Women's Poetry</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id63.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="AMY LEVY"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Amy Levy</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id64.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="EMMA LAZARUS AND ADRIENNE RICH (1929 )"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Emma Lazarus and Adrienne Rich </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>Grace Aguilar (1816-1847)</B></I></div> <bR> <div>     Popular as a novelist, important as a theologian, but ignored as a poet: an English Jew of Sephardic extraction fixated on themes of exile and assimilation at just the point that British Jews were seeking full civil rights,  Aguilar is the first Anglo-Jew to write <I><B>midrashic</B></I> poems  about Hebrew characters.  She is also among the first to jump the boundaries of Victorian women's "domestic sphere" to write explicitly political poetry.  Her work is vigorous, stark, subtle in its critique of British Christian culture.  Some of her most powerful work is clearly proto-Zionist.</div> <div>     Readings from her full, pathbreaking career.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>