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Reviews
This is a remarkable book by one of the foremost writers on contemporary Canadian Jewish women's literature. The seven essays in this collection focus on the work of lesser-known writers like Helen Weinzweig and more widely acclaimed authors like Miriam Waddington and Adele Wiseman, thereby providing an illuminating and insightful overview of the works and lives of authors who have never been studied as a group before. Ruth Panofsky's book is an important contribution to our understanding of both women's literature and Jewish literature in Canada in the second part of the 20th century.
—Goldie Morgentaler, Professor of English, University of Lethbridge
Ruth Panofsky engages her subjects with moral seriousness, passionate intensity, and considerable panache. At Odds in the World gets even with the dominant male structures and strictures in a Jewish-Canadian patriarchal society and culture. Each of the several cogent essays in this varied, perceptive, and subtle collection scores a series of firsts.
—Michael Greenstein, author of Third Solitudes: Tradition and Discontinuity in Canadian-Jewish Literature.
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