Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction
- Significance Biography Literary and Historical Contexts Critical Reception
Grace Aguilar: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text
I. Fiction
- “The Escape” “The Perez Family” “The Spirit of Night”
II. Poetry
- “Sabbath Thoughts III” “An Hour of Peace” “A Poet’s Dying Hymn” “Song of the Spanish Jews, During their ‘Golden Age’” “A Vision of Jerusalem, While Listening to a Beautiful Organ in one of the Gentile Shrines” “The Address to the Ocean” “The Hebrew’s Appeal, On Occasion of the Late Fearful Ukase Promulgated by the Emperor of Russia” “Dialogue Stanzas” “The Wanderers” “The Rocks of Elim”
III. Non-Fiction Prose from The Spirit of Judaism
- [Our Hearts Must Breathe from Our Lips] [The Bible as Foundation and Defense] [The Hebrew’s Neglect of the Bible] [A Minority’s Faith and Observance] [Hints on the Religious Instruction of the Hebrew Youth] [The Significance of the Hebrew Language] [The Value of Profane History and Fiction] [The Spirit and the Forms of Judaism Considered Separately and Together]
from The Women of Israel
- “Introduction” “Sarah” “Miriam” “Deborah”
from The Jewish Faith from Sabbath Thoughts and Sacred Communings
- “Preface” “Morning Meditation” “Prayer for the Government of the Thoughts” From “The Prophecies of Isaiah”
“History of the Jews in England”
Appendix A: Victorian Tributes
- Testimonial from the Misses Levison and Isaacs
- Abraham Benisch, Obituary
- Isaac Leeser, Obituary
- Athenaeum, Obituary
- Tribute by the Ladies Of the Society for the Religious Instruction Of Jewish Youth, Charleston
- Marion Hartog,“Lines Written on the Death of Grace Aguilar”
- Anna Maria Hall, From “A Pilgrimage to the Grave of Grace Aguilar”
- Rebecca Gratz, Letters to Miriam Gratz Cohen
Appendix B: Victorian Criticism
- Isaac Leeser,“Editor’s Preface” to Spirit of Judaism
- Jacob Franklin, Review of Spirit of Judaism, from Voice of Jacob
- Review of The Women of Israel, from Athenaeum
- Review of Home Influence, from Howitt’s Journal
- Abraham Benisch, Review of Imrei Lev, from Jewish Chronicle
- Sarah Aguilar, Correspondence with Miriam and Solomon Cohen on Sabbath Thoughts and Sacred Communings
Appendix C: Romantic and Victorian Reflections on “The Jewish Question”
- George Gordon, Lord Byron,“Jephthah’s Daughter” (1815)
- Walter Scott, From Ivanhoe (1819)
- William Wordsworth,“The Jewish Family” (1828)
- Thomas Babington Macaulay, from “Speech on Jewish Disabilities” (1831)
- Sarah Stickney Ellis, from Women of England (1838)
- Felicia Hemans,“The Song of Miriam” (1839)
Appendix D: Victorian Jewish Writers
- Morris Raphall,“ldquo;The Sun and the Moon” (1834)
- Marion and Celia Moss, from Early Efforts (1839)
- Abraham Benisch,“Our Women” (1861)
Appendix E: Aguilar’s Frankfurt Journal
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