Telling Her Story: Rachel Kadish's The Weight of Ink and Jewish Feminist Narrative.
In Rachel Kadish's novel The Weight of Ink , carefully handled, restored, and translated texts anchor sacred bonds between the living and deceased. The novel presents a series of interweaves and echoes between three characters across centuries, alongside a metanarrative plot about the labor and circ...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (Indiana University Press) Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 23 - 43 |
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Fall2025
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