Session Details

Tuesday, 27 December

27. Belles Juives: The Jewess in European Literature, 1765–1845

5:15–6:30 p.m., Monroe East, Washington Hilton

A special session

Presiding: Nadia D. Valman, Univ. of Southampton

1. “Fictional Autobiographies of ‘Jewesses’ in Eighteenth-Century Venice and Frankfurt,” Ronald Schechter, Coll. of William and Mary

2. “Rewriting Rebecca: ‘La Belle Juive’ in the Historical Fiction of Eugénie Foa,” Maurice A. Samuels, Univ. of Pennsylvania

3. “The Martyred Jewess in Victorian Fiction,” Nadia D. Valman

Respondent: Liliane Weissberg, Univ. of Pennsylvania

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