Kotso shel Yud (1875; “The tip of the [Hebrew letter] Yud,” 2006), the best-known poem of Russian-Jewish poet Yehudah Leib Gordon, is a call for the liberation of Jewish women from religious-patriarchal oppression. Gordon (1831–1892) developed a new Hebrew style and significantly influenced the formation of the Hebrew novel. What is more, he was a prominent representative of the Jewish Enlightenment in Russia, which campaigned especially for r…