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romantic motifs and subtle humor
as well as their everyday lives
designed to encourage future cooks and storytellers to make up their own versions
and in 1906 they sail to America
and Israel
The Marriage Plot: Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature by Naomi Seidman bilingual romantic motifs and subtle humorFor nineteenth century Eastern European Jews, modernization entailed the abandonment of arranged marriage in favor of the "love match." Romantic novels taught Jewish readers the rules of romance and the choreography of courtship. But because these new conceptions of romance were rooted in the Christian and chivalric traditions, the Jewish embrace of "the love religion" was always partial. In The Marriage Plot, Naomi Seidman considers the evolution of
