
Anat koplowitz-breierBar Ilan University | BIU · Department of Comparative Literature
Anat koplowitz-breier
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One of the central foci of the #MeToo movement, which became a social-media phenomenon in 2017, is exposing incidents of rape and sexual harassment. Secrecy, denial, and the explaining away of rape/abuse lying at the core of patriarchal society and culture, feminists began addressing these issues as a primary concern much earlier, however. In this...
While numerous postbiblical authors consider the major figures in the Davidic dynasty, others have turned their attention to the more peripheral characters in the David cycle. The three Israeli novels discussed in this article—Yael Lotan's Avishag (2002), Avraham Burg's Avishag (2011), and Eva Etzioni-Halevy's But the King Did Not Know Her (2014)—f...
Ora Shem-Ur’s detective series starring Ali Honigsberg established her as one of the early female pioneers in the new wave of Israeli detective fiction writers. In line with the current trend in post-feminist criticism towards analyzing the place of women within popular culture by looking at fiction as an agent of social change, this article sugges...
This article explores the ecopoetry written by three women poets who also identify themselves as Jewish poets: Alicia Ostriker, Marge Piercy and Naomi Ruth Lowinsky. It examines whether they employ any or some/all of the “emancipatory strategies” characteristic of the ecofeminist re-imagination of nature and human relationships with the natural wor...
Judaism traditionally barred women from studying; thus, much of Jewish feminism has been devoted to gaining access to the Jewish canon as a whole and the biblical text in particular. Adrienne Rich and Alicia Suskin Ostriker argue that, in re-visioning biblical/ancient texts, women help liberate themselves from male-dominated culture. This article f...
A proper name individualizes a person, the lack of it making him or her less noticeable. This insight is apt in regard to the nameless women in the Hebrew Bible, a resolutely androcentric work. As Judaism traditionally barred women from studying, many Jewish feminists have sought access to the Jewish canon. Much of American-Jewish women’s poetry ca...
Although mentioned only twice in Genesis (19:17, 26), Lot’s wife has been a topic of much discussion amongst both traditional and modern commentators and exegetes. However, as opposed to the androcentric traditional midrash, the Jewish American women poets, who write midrashic-poetry, re-read the biblical story with a feminine/feminist lens, making...
In the Hebrew Bible, Jephthah’s daughter has neither name nor heir. The biblical account (Judg. 11:30–40) is somber—a daughter due to be sacrificed because of her father’s rash vow. The theme has inspired numerous midrashim and over five hundred artistic works since the Renaissance. Traditionally barred from studying the Jewish canon as women, many...
This article explores contemporary detective fiction written by non-Jews through the prism of Bauman's concept of allosemitism, examining the way in which Jews and Jewish communities are depicted as the ‘Other’. Analysing Irish Canadian John Brady's Kaddish in Dublin (1990; Dublin Jews through the eyes of Catholic police detectives), Polish Zygmunt...
This article explores Shirley Kaufman's reading of the Bible as an elaboration on/of its feminine characters via three devices: (a) Dramatic monologues, in which the woman speaks for herself ("Rebecca" and "Leah"); (b) description of specific scenes that gives us a glimpse into the character's point of view ("His Wife", "Michal", "Abishag", "The Wi...
The themes of dislocation, transition, and motion run like a scarlet thread throughout Shirley Kaufman’s poetry. Born in Seattle (1923-2016) to a family of immigrants, she subsequently moved to San Francisco, Jerusalem, and back to the US. As an American-Israeli poetess, she described herself as ‘hyphenated,’ adding in an interview with G. Levin: ‘...
Hartmut Vollmer (1993) and Barbara Wright (2005) argue that women Expressionist poets have been largely neglected and forgotten. The article seeks to make a modest contribution towards remedying this scholarly lacuna by examining Hedwig Caspari’s poetry, while focusing on the relationship between Poet and God as reflected in her poetry. Caspari (18...
2 Kings 1:1–5, 14 recounts how a young virgin, Abishag the Shunammite, was brought to old King David to warm his cold bones. After the king’s death, Abishag functions as a pawn in Adonijah’s attempt to usurp his brother. Throughout the narrative none of Abishag’s emotions are revealed. Although numerous twentieth-century poets have addressed this b...
We have been accustomed to associating the detective novel with the “mean streets” of the city since the hard-boiled novels of Raymond Chandler. The detective writer serves as a cartographer of sorts, the protagonist of his works becoming a flâneur according Walter Benjamin's definition—one who walks the urban streets of the city acknowledging its...
We have been accustomed to associating the detective novel with the “mean streets” of the city since the hard-boiled novels of Raymond Chandler. The detective writer serves as a cartographer of sorts, the protagonist of his works becoming a flâneur according Walter Benjamin’s definition-one who walks the urban streets of the city acknowledging its...
In this article, I would like to focus on four poems written with almost
the same background: the German world at the beginning of the twentieth century.
An additional factor connecting the four poems is their biblical theme: Abisag of
Sunem. The poems are ‘Abisag von Sunem’ (by Agnes Miegel); ‘David und
Abisag’ (Erstes Buch der Ko¨nige, Kapitel 1....
In 1935, Ludwig Strauss published a volume of poetry entitled Land Israel, the contents of which relate to the two visits he had made to the country in 1924 and 1934. This article discusses the imprint of Yehuda Halevi's poetry – in particular his Zion and journey poems – on Strauss's collection. Strauss's poems depict " Eretz Israel " not only via...
The New Testament parable of the “Prodigal Son” has many interpretations in literature and art. In this article I focus on
two poetic examples: Rilke’s “Der Auszug des Verlorenen Sohnes” and Lea Goldberg’s “The Prodigal Son,” a cycle of three poems:
“On the Road,” “In the House,” and “Repentance”. I will show the differences between the poets’ appr...
The article examines the manner in which the female characters are represented in the Nibelungenlied by dividing them into two groups: the traditional women, who keep their socially accepted positions and are supportive of the men, and the women rebelling against tradition, who try to be part of the male world, thereby exceeding the limits of tradi...
The fifteenth-century Le Morte Darthur 1 composed by Sir Thomas Malory, is perhaps the most influential Arthurian text written in English. Malory wrote his romance in prose at the end of the fifteenth-century (c. 1470) basing it on several works in English and French. Since the only facts we know about Malory 2 is his name, his being a knight and h...
The characters in Sir Thomas Malory�s La Morte D�arthur do not conform to the standard definition of Romance personae. In fact, they can be placed in a kind of transitional stage which has been called a Character�s Model. After elucidating the nature of such a concept, this paper goes on to investigate two Character�s Models of women in the Le Mort...
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She is a Jewish German poet. Published mainly in Expressionistic journals.
i'm looking into Agnes Miegel poetry and I'm wondering is there any feminist aspect ain her poetry?
Is there a different between poems that contain ars-poetica and reflexive poetry?
I'm looking for a definition since in the Dictionary of Ethics plagiarism is defined as appropriation, yet plagiarism is considered not ethical and appropriation is ok.