His Alienated Wife

His Alienated Wife (orig. title in Hebrew: אשתו המנודה), is a 1997 novel by Israeli author Eda Zoritte.

His Alienated Wife
AuthorEda Zoritte
Original titleאשתו המנודה
Cover artistLena Zaidel
CountryIsrael
LanguageHebrew
GenreHistorical fiction[1]
PublisherKeter Publishing House
Publication date
1997
Media typePrint
ISBN9650707115

The book is a fictitious novel about Theodor Herzl's wife, Julie Naschauer-Herzl.[2] In it, Zoritte suggests a fictitious alternative to the official Zionist depicting of Julie as a cherished figure of the Zionist movement,[3] in which she and her two children were smuggled by activists of the World Zionist Organization to the United States, where she was committed to a sanatorium in order not to taint the official national myth and official Zionist history with her frustrations and capricious outbursts.[4]

The book is written in two distinct parts. Part I, "The New World", consists of confessional pages, written by Julie and placed in safekeeping with a young journalist who documents her meetings with the great leader's wife. Part II, ״The Diaries, 1922-1925", is the diaries written by Julie until the end of her residence in the sanatorium.[4]

His Alientated Wife is one of three books by Zoritte in which she chose to give a voice to the forgotten women of the Zionist movement. The other two books are ״Life Long Love״, a novel on the tragic love of the painter Ira Jan to Hayim Nahman Bialik and ״״The Maiden and the Poet״, about Nathan Alterman's lover, the painter Zila Binder.[5]

References
  1. Edelsberg, Chen. ""His Alienated Wife": Eda Zoritte's View of Writing". World Union of Jewish Studies. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  2. "אשתו המנודה - אידה צורית". Simania. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
  3. Weiser, Alex (17 January 2019). "Reconsidering Julie Herzl, Theodor's Unhappy Wife". LABA - A Laboratory for Jewish Culture. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  4. Shamir, Shamir (June 1998). "כל אשה והאמת שלה (Every Woman and Her Truth)". Moznaim / מאזנים. ע"ב (9): 62–63. JSTOR 23944362.
  5. Edelsberg, Chen (2 June 2016). "קולן של הנשים המנודות (The Voice of the Cast-out Women)". Haaretz. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
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