Charlotte Montefiore, Marion Hartog, and Jewish women's periodical publishing

Amid the robust market in Victorian Anglo-Jewish periodicals, only two were edited by women: Charlotte Montefiore's Cheap Jewish Library: Dedicated to the Working Classes (1841–49) and Marion Hartog's Jewish Sabbath Journal: A Penny and Moral Magazine for the Young (1855). Their contrasting fortunes reveal the challenges of female editorship of religious periodicals and clarify implicit Anglo-Jewish attitudes about the parameters of Jewish identity. Intolerance toward women's theological interventions and a preference for framing the identity of British Jews in nationalist terms within a wider international Jewish public sphere determined the fates of these two women-edited periodicals.