Böcker av Michael Galchinsky

Between 1830 and 1880, the Jewish community flourished in England. During this time, known as the Anglo-Jewish Enlightenment, Jewish women in England became the first Jewish women anywhere to publish novels, histories, periodicals, theological tracts, and conduct manuals. This book analyses this critical but forgotten period in the development of Jewish women's writing.

This sophisticated book argues that human rights literature both helps the persecuted to cope with their trauma and serves as the foundation for a cosmopolitan ethos of universal civility-a culture without borders.

Analyzes the role of Jews in the formation of international human rights efforts throughout the US, Israel, and the Former Soviet Union. This work examines this human rights work as part of a total system of Jewish political commitments, a system shaped by both human rights history and Jewish history.