Climbing the Kehilla Walls Universiteit Antwerpen
Allegra Goodman, often referred to as the Jewish Jane Austen for her sympathetic depictions of the daily lives of Orthodox Jewish characters, has also been praised as the poster child for a still-growing group of post-assimilationist writers who tackle the topics of spirituality and religious observance head on (Harrison-Kahan 2012). This essay will consider Goodmans reputation as a postassimilationist Jewish writer as well as her depiction of a ...