This book completely redefines our understanding of fin de siècle Anglo-Jewish author Amy Levy and her writing. Demonstrating that Levy's writing is less anti-Judaic and more profoundly influenced by the religious concerns of classical German Reformism, Luke Devine's innovative approach reveals that Levy's writing constitutes a genre whose female subjectivity evinces a concern for justice and authority that prefigures numerous aspects of Second-Wave Jewish feminist theory and its spiritual and theological underpinnings.

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Table of Contents (page 5)
Preface (page 7)
Acknowledgments (page 9)
From Anglo-First-Wave to American Second-Wave Jewish Feminism: Introduction (page 11)
1 Amy Levy: Short Biography, Historiography, and Overview of Jewish Feminist Theology (page 31)
2 ?A Prayer,Z Midrash, (page 73)
2 ?A Prayer,Z Midrash, and Second-Wave Jewish Feminist Spirituality and Theological Discourse (page 73)
3 Amy Levy's Midrashic Poetry: ?A Greek GirlZ and ?MagdalenZ (page 107)
4 Amy Levy's Reuben Sachs, Proto-Feminism, and Reform Judaism (page 147)
5 Messianic Redemption, The Book of Judith, and the Megillah in Reuben Sachs (page 181)
From Anglo-First-Wave Towards Third-Wave Jewish-Feminism: Conclusion (page 205)
Glossary (page 227)
Bibliography (page 233)
Index (page 271)