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- Title
Zelda Popkin: The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer by Jeremy D. Popkin (review).
- Authors
Kirzane, Jessica
- Abstract
This article is a review of the biography "Zelda Popkin: The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer" by Jeremy D. Popkin. The author highlights Zelda Popkin's significance in American Jewish literary studies and gender studies. Her writing, which combined journalism and popular middlebrow novels, focused on major events in twentieth-century Jewish life and centered women's perspectives. The biography explores Zelda Popkin's novels, her approach to work and parenting, and her contributions to American Jewish history, including changing roles of women, perspectives on the Holocaust and Israel, and her critique of American Jewish institutions. The reviewer praises the biography for its intimate insights into Zelda Popkin's personal life and its inclusion of the author's personal memories and family archive. However, the reviewer also notes biases in the author's assessment of Zelda Popkin's writing, which detract from the analysis. Overall, the biography is seen as an important contribution to recognizing Zelda Popkin's pioneering role in Jewish American writing.
- Subjects
AMERICAN women authors; VETERANS; WIDOWS; AMERICAN Jews; PUBLIC relations personnel; JEWISH women; AMERICAN Jewish history
- Publication
American Jewish History, 2023, Vol 107, Issue 4, p798
- ISSN
0164-0178
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ajh.2023.a926216