His Alienated Wife
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| Author | Eda Zoritte |
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| Original title | אשתו המנודה |
| Cover artist | Lena Zaidel |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Genre | Historical fiction[1] |
| Publisher | Keter Publishing House |
Publication date | 1997 |
| Publication place | Israel |
| Media type | |
| ISBN | 9650707115 |
His Alienated Wife (orig. title in Hebrew: אשתו המנודה), is a 1997 novel by Israeli author Eda Zoritte.
The book is a fictitious novel about Theodor Herzl's wife, Julie Naschauer-Herzl.[2] In it, Zoritte suggests a fictitious alternative to the official Zionist depicting of Julie as a cherished figure of the Zionist movement,[3] in which she and her two children were smuggled by activists of the World Zionist Organization to the United States, where she was committed to a sanatorium in order not to taint the official national myth and official Zionist history with her frustrations and capricious outbursts.[4]
The book is written in two distinct parts. Part I, "The New World", consists of confessional pages, written by Julie and placed in safekeeping with a young journalist who documents her meetings with the great leader's wife. Part II, ״The Diaries, 1922-1925", is the diaries written by Julie until the end of her residence in the sanatorium.[4]
His Alientated Wife is one of three books by Zoritte in which she chose to give a voice to the forgotten women of the Zionist movement. The other two books are ״Life Long Love״, a novel on the tragic love of the painter Ira Jan to Hayim Nahman Bialik and ״״The Maiden and the Poet״, about Nathan Alterman's lover, the painter Zila Binder.[5]
External links
References
- ^ Edelsberg, Chen. ""His Alienated Wife": Eda Zoritte's View of Writing". World Union of Jewish Studies. Retrieved 10 January 2020.[dead link]
- ^ "אשתו המנודה - אידה צורית". Simania. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
- ^ Weiser, Alex (17 January 2019). "Reconsidering Julie Herzl, Theodor's Unhappy Wife". LABA - A Laboratory for Jewish Culture. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
- ^ a b Shamir, Shamir (June 1998). "כל אשה והאמת שלה (Every Woman and Her Truth)". Moznaim / מאזנים. ע"ב (9): 62–63. JSTOR 23944362.
- ^ Edelsberg, Chen (2 June 2016). "קולן של הנשים המנודות (The Voice of the Cast-out Women)". Haaretz. Retrieved 10 January 2020.