Apostasy in the Modern Hebrew Novel: A Study of Judah Leib Gordon’s “Compassion of a Mother”

This research presents the topic of Apostasy out of Judaism in Hebrew novels and stories, and shows specifically the story of (Mother's Mercy) for the Jewish writer "Jordan" as a model, and that is through the transition between the public aspect to the private aspect, so it shows this topic in the Hebrew novels and stories generally, then it switches to focus on the Jordan's story that is studied in the topic of this research and that is through a study in content and form where the researcher intended to highlight the deepness of this idea in the story.
The research is following the analytical critical method and ends with showing a group of results, one of its most important is that the topic of Apostasy out of Judaism is an open topic since the beginning of the modern Hebrew literature to its current time, which its presentation features a continuity that also differs with the difference of writers and their thoughts, and the symbolic handling of this issue have an important position in the literary expression.
The Jewish writers didn't intend to abuse the Judaism but they intended to encourage the religious reformation and to direct the attentions to this phenomenon that can't be denied.