Naomi Seidman: 1 book
The Marriage Plot
Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
For nineteenth-century Eastern European Jews, modernization entailed the abandonment of arranged marriage in favor of the "love match." Romantic novels taught Jewish readers the rules of romance and the choreography of courtship. But because these new conceptions of romance were rooted in...
