Draft:Violet Guttenberg

Violet Guttenberg
Violet Guttenberg
Born	April 26, 1880 ; Chorlton-on-Medlock
Died	1973 (aged 92–93); Worthing
Occupation	Writer
Parent(s)	Marcus Guttenberg ;

Violet Leah Guttenberg (April 26, 1880 – 1973) was a British novelist.

Violet Guttenberg was born in 1880 in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, England. She was the daughter of immigrants Marcus Guttenberg, a Polish photographer, and Henritta Guttenberg, a German. She was educated at the Manchester High School for Girls.^[1]

Guttenberg's work largely focused on British Jews but features evangelical themes and Jewish characters converting to Christianity. Scholars believe she was raised Jewish and converted to Protestantism.^[1]^[2] In Neither Jew nor Greek (1902), Celia Franks is a Jewish woman who expresses distaste for Jewish social and religious customs and converts to Christianity.^[2] A Modern Exodus (1904) is a dystopian near future tale focused on Lionel Montella, a Jewish MP, who marries an Anglican woman, Lady Patricia. Thanks to the machinations of an antisemitic Prime Minister, an Expulsion Bill is passed to exile all Jews from the UK. Most Jews settle in Haifa, where Montella becomes governor. Guttenberg portrays Haifa as a place of religious intolerance and ethnic strife, and Montella is pitted against Chief Rabbi Ben-Yetzel, who forces Lady Patricia back to England because of her Anglicanism. The Prime Minister repents and most British Jews return to the UK.^[1]

She also published a novella, "Rabbi Phil" (1904), and a short story, "Twixt Beauty and Duty" (1908), in the evangelical publication The Quiver.^[1]

Personal life

In 1904, she married and her name became Violet Thompson-Allen.^[1]

Bibliography

Neither Jew nor Greek: A Story of Jewish Social Life. London: Chatto & Windus, 1902.^[1]
The Power of the Palmist. London: Chatto & Windus, 1903.^[1]
A Modern Exodus. London: Greening, 1904.^[1]

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Bar-Yosef, Eitan (2013-07). "NEW CITIES FOR NEW JEWS: HAIFA AS FUTURISTIC URBAN FANTASY IN THEODOR HERZL'S ALTNEULAND AND VIOLET GUTTENBERG'S A MODERN EXODUS". Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. 12 (2): 162–183. doi:10.1080/14725886.2013.796155. ISSN 1472-5886. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
1 2 Valman, Nadia (2007). The Jewess in nineteenth-century British literary culture. Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Cambridge: Cambridge university press. ISBN 978-0-521-86306-3.

[:0-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Bar-Yosef, Eitan (2013-07). "NEW CITIES FOR NEW JEWS: HAIFA AS FUTURISTIC URBAN FANTASY IN THEODOR HERZL'S ALTNEULAND AND VIOLET GUTTENBERG'S A MODERN EXODUS". Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. 12 (2): 162–183. doi:10.1080/14725886.2013.796155. ISSN 1472-5886. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

[:1-2] 1 2 Valman, Nadia (2007). The Jewess in nineteenth-century British literary culture. Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Cambridge: Cambridge university press. ISBN 978-0-521-86306-3.

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