Sonia Gollance

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Sonia Gollance is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Yiddish at University College London. She is the author of It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity (Stanford University Press, 2021), which was published in paperback in October 2023.

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black and white drawing of people dancing in couples at a ball, circa 1800s

Scandalous Dance Scenes, Romance Plots, and Jewish Literary Modernity

Sonia Gollance

Long before Fiddler on the Roof, Jewish writers used partner dance as a powerful metaphor for social changes that transformed Jewish communities.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Sonia Gollance." (Viewed on November 21, 2024) <https://jwa.org/blog/author-7>.