Michael Galchinsky Livres

The book explores the significant influence of Jewish individuals and communities in shaping international human rights initiatives across the U.S., Israel, and the Former Soviet Union. It contextualizes this involvement within a broader framework of Jewish political commitments, intertwining human rights history with Jewish historical experiences. The narrative asserts that the pursuit of human rights has consistently been an integral aspect of the Jewish political mission, highlighting its enduring importance despite varying prominence over time.

Between 1830 and 1880, the Jewish community flourished in England. During this time, known as the Anglo-Jewish Enlightenment, Jewish women in England became the first Jewish women anywhere to publish novels, histories, periodicals, theological tracts, and conduct manuals. This book analyses this critical but forgotten period in the development of Jewish women's writing.

This sophisticated book argues that human rights literature both helps the persecuted to cope with their trauma and serves as the foundation for a cosmopolitan ethos of universal civility—a culture without borders. Michael Galchinsky maintains that, no matter how many treaties there are, a rights-respecting world will not truly exist until people everywhere can imagine it. The Modes of Human Rights Literature describes four major forms of human rights literature: protest, testimony, lament, and laughter to reveal how such works give common symbolic forms to widely held sociopolitical emotions.