Authors Posts by Eileen Watts
Eileen Watts
Eileen H. Watts chairs the English Department at Kohelet Yeshiva High School (Merion Station, PA), where she co-teaches a course on Jewish Thought, Philosophy, and Literature. Dr. Watts was the bibliographer for The Bernard Malamud Society from 1994 to 2009 and writes about the intersection of literature and Jewish theology. She has published widely on Malamud and has brought Jewish thought to a broad range of literary texts, from Daniel Deronda and Frankenstein to Charlotte’s Web and The Phantom Tollbooth. Dr. Watts also won the inaugural Kohelet Prize for Interdisciplinary Integration for “Philosophical Ethics and the Meeting of Minds” with Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Sinensky.
Daniel Deronda: George Eliot’s Book of Exodus
In this essay, Eileen Watts draws parallels between Daniel Deronda and the book of Exodus
Daniel Deronda and Fate and Destiny: Reflections on Zionism and Feminism
What do you get when you read George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda alongside Rav Soloveitchik’s Kol
Dodi Dofek? A cross between Zionism and feminism, argues Eileen Watts.
There Are Jews Everywhere: Divine Revelation through the Other in Malamud’s “Angel Levine”
Eileen Watts puts the writings of Bernard Malamud in conversation with today's immigrant debate.
The “Genesis” of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Eileen Watts examines the similarities between Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Rav Soloveitchik's Lonely Man of Faith.
Bernard Malamud’s “The German Refugee”: A Parable for Tishah Be-Av
Eileen Watts explores how Bernard Malamud's "The German Refugee" amplifies the themes of Tisha B'Av.
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