Wilhelmina Wittigschlager’s Minna: The Portrait of a Dazzling Jewish Feminist, Anarchist, and Nihilist

Abstract Wilhelmina Wittigschlager’s novel, Minna: Wife of the Young Rabbi , published in 1905, serves as a case point for characterizing young audacious Jewish female protagonist who, against all odds, by breaking societal conventions and exercising strong will remarkable determination, attains individual freedom struggles political social justice This study has yielded some important insights regarding key role Minna’s multiple racial, religious, national identities play construction her fictional self. By examining cultural, historical, influences upon Wittigschlager, she was process writing this paper aims at showing how portrayal defiant is interlaced with factual lifestyles, culture, representations actual contemporary rebels such Lucy Parsons, Emma Goldman, Hesya Gelfman Jewishness central characterization, while exploration pertinent socio-historical, political, economic aspects outlines environment which character conceived