It is undisputed that the emancipation of women, including Jewish women had been more or less completed by the beginning of the 20th century.This process had not only substantially endangered the male dominated positions but created new identity patterns for women. Then again, the literary appearance of the ‚Jewish’ Other puts the very basis of the phallogocentric order into question and re-interprets the roles of Tradition.In my paper, I attempt to detect to what extent such findings may be valid regarding the works of Hungarian Jewish women writers of the first half of the 20th century