Rhetoric Review Oct 2020

“The Woman Who Talks”: A Qualitative Case Study in Feminist Jewish Rhetorics

Alexander Slotkin Universidad del Noreste

Abstract

Jewish rhetorics recently garnered critical attention in rhetoric studies, resulting in extensive scholarship attempting to carve out the field’s jurisdiction. Jewish feminist rhetoricians, for example, often use Jewish rhetorics to reclaim women’s religious experiences. But recovering the secular voices of Jewish women is also essential to understanding Jewish rhetorics, evinced by an anonymous group of nineteenth century women. These women use secular Jewish topoi—exile, tzedek (justice), and zikaron (memory)—to articulate their identity as American Jewish women, demonstrating both Jewish rhetorics’ potential as a cultural rhetoric and topoi’s ability to empower marginalized communities through exclusionary practices.

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Rhetoric Review
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2020-10-01
DOI
10.1080/07350198.2020.1805576
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