A Woman's Voice: Sarah Foner, Hebrew Author of the Haskalah

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A Woman's Voice comprises the writings of Sarah Menkin Foner (1854-1936), a Jewish woman who authored the Haskalah, and who penned her thoughts and concerns about arranged marriages, the restricted social status of Jewish women in Eastern European society, and Zionism. Sarah Foner had very sharp criticisms of religious intolerance, and expressed even harsher antipathies against the various factitious conflicts that diverse Jewish groups engaged against one another in spite of violence committed against them by Russians and Poles, and much, much more. Six of her works are adroitly translated into English by Morris Rosenthal in this powerful, thought-provoking, highly recommended anthology of a truly remarkable and articulate woman.