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14 of the Best Books and Articles on: Portrayal of Jews in Literature

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1.

The Image of the Jew in American Literature: From Early Republic to Mass Immigration » Read Now
by Louis Harap. 592 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...displayed to the Jews as a people...persistence of the stereotype...of the Jew in literature was completely...that the portrayal changes with...depicted foreign Jews; the...
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The Jew in the American Novel » Read Now
by Leslie A. Fiedler. 62 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...American literature; and the...recasting of Samson and...Abraham Cahan in The Rise...overwhelmed by Jews from Galicia...cultures; a portrayal of New World...implications...
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The Jew in the Literature of England to the End of the 19th Century » Read Now
by Montagu Frank Modder. 434 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...character in the literature of England...accessible in the average...status of the Jews in England...that the portrayal changes with...measure, the Jews behavior...the...
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The 'Jewish Question' in German Literature, 1749-1939: Emancipation and Its Discontents » Read Now
by Ritchie Robertson. 534 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

The Jewish Question in German Literature, 1749-1939 is an erudite and searching literary study of the uneasy position of the Jews in Germany and Austria from the first pleas for Jewish emancipation during the Enlightenment to the eve of the Holocaust. Trying to avoid hindsight, and drawing on a wide...
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The Jewish Question in German Literature, 1749-1939 is an erudite and searching literary study of the uneasy position of the Jews in Germany and Austria from the first pleas for Jewish emancipation during the Enlightenment to the eve of the Holocaust. Trying to avoid hindsight, and drawing on a wide range of literary texts, Ritchie Robertson offers a close examination of attempts to construct a Jewish identity suitable for an increasingly secular world. He examines both literary portrayals of Jews by Gentile writers - whether antisemitic, friendly, or ambivalent - and efforts to reinvent Jewish identities by the Jews themselves, in response to antisemitism culminating in Zionism. No other study by a single author deals with German-Jewish relations so comprehensively and over such a long period of literary history. Robertson's new work will prove stimulating for anyone interested in the modern Jewish experience, as well as for scholars and students of German fiction, prose, and political culture.
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James Joyce's Judaic Other » Read Now
by Marilyn Reizbaum. 196 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

How can recent work on ethnicity and race speak to the Jewish dimension in the writings of James Joyce? The concept of the other is significant for Joyce's work, and Reizbaum shows that this must be informed by the history of anti-semitism.
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The Truth about Shylock » Read Now
by Bernard Grebanier. 376 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...represented in literature he must be...like members of all groups, some Jews are saints...expense of the Jews did them...the story of little Hugh...known to literature in...
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Shylock: The History of a Character » Read Now
by Hermann Sinsheimer. 147 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...enquire whether the Jews of the Middle Ages...rich rabbinical literature, the Jew did not participate at all in the spiritual life...always wrong. In English medieval...
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The Golden Scapegoat: Portrait of the Jew in the Novels of Balzac » Read Now
by Frances Schlamowitz Grodzinsky. 91 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Jews of the Wrong Sort: D.H. Lawrence and Race, in Journal of Modern Literature » Read Now
by Ronald Granofsky. 16 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...anxiety about Jews violating boundaries...characterizations that, in some cases...Doll in terms of fear and loathing...and Lawrences portrayal of the cosmopolitan...than I...
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Victims or Villains: Jewish Images in Classic English Detective Fiction » Read Now
by Malcolm J. Turnbull. 200 pgs.

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Miriam and the Conversion of the Jews in Nathaniel Hawthorne's the Marble Faun, in Studies in the Novel » Read Now
by Augustus M. Kolich. 14 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...especially for Italian Jews who, by 1859, looked...for Hawthorne the work of "romantic fantasies...half-English Miriam in a place all too ripe...her own shifting self-...
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Realists and Jews, in Studies in American Fiction » Read Now
by Everett Carter. 11 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...to Svengali, from the Jew of Malta to Fagin, Jews in literature had been caricatures of evil; or, from Dickens Riah to George Eliots...Thackerays technique is not his...
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Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815 » Read Now
by Ronald Schechter. 335 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

A path-breaking study of the Jews in France from the time of the philosophies through the Revolution and up to Napoleon.Examines how Jews were thought of during this time, by both French writers and the Jews themselves.
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Tough Jews: Political Fantasies and the Moral Dilemma of American Jewry » Read Now
by Paul Breines. 266 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...American fiction Jewish authors History and criticism. 8. Jews in literature. I. Title. DS140.B7 1990 909.04924 dc20 90-80242 CIP Copyright 1990 by Basic Books, a Division...