Greatest Need, The - The Creative Life and Troubled Times of Lily Tobias, A Welsh Jew in Palestine — The Creative Life and Troubled Times of Lily Tobias, A Welsh Jew in Palestine

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Cofiant llawn cyntaf Lily Tobias (1887-1984), llenor Iddewig o Gymru, a gwraig ddewr o ddelfrydau cadarn a ysgrifennodd am brofiadau bywyd Iddewon yn yr 20fed ganrif.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

The first full biography of Lily Tobias (1887-1984) a Jewish writer from Wales: a courageous, idealistic woman who wrote compellingly about Jewish life and experience in the 20th century.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Jasmine Donahaye is author of the monograph Whose People? Wales, Israel, Palestine (University of Wales Press, 2012). She is also author of two poetry collections, Self-Portrait as Ruth (Salt, 2009), which was longlisted for Wales Book of the Year, and Misappropriations (Parthian, 2006), shortlisted for the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. She has edited two of Lily Tobias’s novels, republished in the Welsh Women’s Classics series.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

The first full biography of Lily Tobias (1887-1984) a Jewish writer from Wales: a courageous, idealistic woman who wrote compellingly about Jewish life and experience in the 20th century. Daughter of Polish immigrant parents, Lily Tobias grew up in the Swansea valley. The family spoke Yiddish at home, English in class and Welsh in the playground, and Lily was always aware of her mixed identity. She was passionate about her rights as a woman in a time of suffrage, as a Jewish woman in a religion that kept men and women separate, as a socialist in a time of industrial change and as a pacifist in the face of the Great War. She worked as a journalist from the age of 14 and slowly began to gain a profile as a speaker on Zionism and as a novelist. She was adamant that a Jewish state was necessary, but also that it should and could only be won peacefully. Her ambition to help establish a homeland for the Jews was fulfilled when she and her businessman husband moved to Palestine in 1936. But the dream was demolished with Phillip Tobias’ murder at the hands of a terrorist mob in 1938. Lily Tobias wrote four novels, and a collection of short stories and the first dramatization for the stage of Daniel Deronda. Her fiction was always topical and drew on her own unique mix of cultures, focusing on her compassionate pacifism and desire for equity for all. This is a popular biography aimed at a general audience written by a key commentator on Jewish Welsh identity.