Author: Doreen BergerPublisher: Witney, Oxfordshire : Robert Boyd Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Entries are taken from the Jewish Chronicle, Jewish Record and the Jewish World.
The Jewish Victorian
Author: Doreen BergerPublisher: Witney, Oxfordshire : Robert Boyd Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Entries are taken from the Jewish Chronicle, Jewish Record and the Jewish World.
The Jewish Victorian
Author: Doreen BergerPublisher: Witney, Oxfordshire : Robert Boyd Pub.
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Victorian Jews Through British Eyes
Author: Anne CowenPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1909821276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This book reproduces, with commentary, pictures from Victorian illustrated magazines such as "Punch", "The Illustrated London News", and "The Graphic", to show how Jewish subjects were presented to Victorian readers.
The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer
Author: Michael GalchinskyPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814326138
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Between 1830 and 1880, the Jewish community flourished in England. During this time, known as haskalah, or the Anglo-Jewish Enlightenment, Jewish women in England became the first Jewish women anywhere to publish novels, histories, periodicals, theological tracts, and conduct manuals. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer analyzes this critical but forgotten period in the development of Jewish women's writing in relation to Victorian literary history, women's cultural history, and Jewish cultural history. Michael Galchinsky demonstrates that these women writers were the most widely recognized spokespersons for the haskalah. Their romances, some of which sold as well as novels by Dickens, argued for Jew's emancipation in the Victorian world and women's emancipation in the Jewish world.
Disraeli
Author: David CesaraniPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300221894
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Lauded as a “great Jew,” excoriated by antisemites, and one of Britain’s most renowned prime ministers, Benjamin Disraeli has been widely celebrated for his role in Jewish history. But is the perception of him as a Jewish hero accurate? In what ways did he contribute to Jewish causes? In this groundbreaking, lucid investigation of Disraeli’s life and accomplishments, David Cesarani draws a new portrait of one of Europe’s leading nineteenth-century statesmen, a complicated, driven, opportunistic man. While acknowledging that Disraeli never denied his Jewish lineage, boasted of Jewish achievements, and argued for Jewish civil rights while serving as MP, Cesarani challenges the assumption that Disraeli truly cared about Jewish issues. Instead, his driving personal ambition required him to confront his Jewishness at the same time as he acted opportunistically. By creating a myth of aristocratic Jewish origins for himself, and by arguing that Jews were a superior race, Disraeli boosted his own career but also contributed to the consolidation of some of the most fundamental stereotypes of modern antisemitism.
Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England
Author: Cynthia ScheinbergPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139434225
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Victorian women poets lived in a time when religion was a vital aspect of their identities. Cynthia Scheinberg examines Anglo-Jewish (Grace Aguilar and Amy Levy) and Christian (Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti) women poets, and argues that there are important connections between the discourses of nineteenth-century poetry, gender and religious identity. Further, Scheinberg argues that Jewish and Christian women poets had a special interest in Jewish discourse; calling on images from Judaism and the Hebrew Scriptures, their poetry created complex arguments about the relationships between Jewish and female artistic identity. She suggests that Jewish and Christian women used poetry as a site for creative and original theological interpretation, and that they entered into dialogue through their poetry about their own and each other's religious and artistic identities. This book's interdisciplinary methodology calls on poetics, religious studies, feminist literary criticism, and little read Anglo-Jewish primary sources.
The Accommodated Jew
Author: Kathy LavezzoPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501706705
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
England during the Middle Ages was at the forefront of European antisemitism. It was in medieval Norwich that the notorious "blood libel" was first introduced when a resident accused the city's Jewish leaders of abducting and ritually murdering a local boy. England also enforced legislation demanding that Jews wear a badge of infamy, and in 1290, it became the first European nation to expel forcibly all of its Jewish residents. In The Accommodated Jew, Kathy Lavezzo rethinks the complex and contradictory relation between England’s rejection of "the Jew" and the centrality of Jews to classic English literature. Drawing on literary, historical, and cartographic texts, she charts an entangled Jewish imaginative presence in English culture. In a sweeping view that extends from the Anglo-Saxon period to the late seventeenth century, Lavezzo tracks how English writers from Bede to Milton imagine Jews via buildings—tombs, latrines and especially houses—that support fantasies of exile. Epitomizing this trope is the blood libel and its implication that Jews cannot be accommodated in England because of the anti-Christian violence they allegedly perform in their homes. In the Croxton Play of the Sacrament, Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta, and Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, the Jewish house not only serves as a lethal trap but also as the site of an emerging bourgeoisie incompatible with Christian pieties. Lavezzo reveals the central place of "the Jew" in the slow process by which a Christian "nation of shopkeepers" negotiated their relationship to the urban capitalist sensibility they came to embrace and embody. In the book’s epilogue, she advances her inquiry into Victorian England and the relationship between Charles Dickens (whose Fagin is the second most infamous Jew in English literature after Shylock) and the Jewish couple that purchased his London home, Tavistock House, showing how far relations between gentiles and Jews in England had (and had not) evolved.
'The Jew' in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture
Author: E. Bar-YosefPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230594379
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
The turbulent period from the Boer War to the introduction of the Aliens Act was marked by contradictory imaginings of 'the Jew' - pauper/capitalist, separatist/imposter, ideal colonizer/undesirable immigrant, familiar/alien. This new collection considers the wider colonial context in which these ambivalent attitudes to Jews were produced.
The Jewish Victorian
Author: Doreen BergerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish chronicle (London, England : 1845)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000
Author: Todd M. EndelmanPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520227200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
A history of the Jewish community in Britain, including resettlement, integration, acculturation, economic transformation and immigration.