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The universal Jew : masculinity, modernity, and the Zionist moment
- Author / Creator
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Details
- Creator
- Mikhal Dekel
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2010
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (ix, 267 pages)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780810165052, 0810165058, 9780810127173, 0810127172
- OCLC
- ocn794698882
- OldControl:muse9780810165052.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: Man-Jew-woman -- Jewish men, universal women: novel, nation, and creation in Daniel Deronda -- Jews, modernity, and the end of the European bildungsroman -- On woman and nation in the late nineteenth century -- "Who taught this foreign woman about the ways and lives of the Jews?": George Eliot and Hebrew renaissance -- Fin-de-siecle imagi-nation of a liberal public sphere in Palestine -- Herzl's old new land -- The tragedy of Zionism -- Nationhood and the birth of Jewish tragedy at the fin de siecle: a quick overview -- Kishinev and the making of a Jewish tragedy -- "Nietzsche: I want to become one" -- Masculinity, tragedy, and the nation-state -- An autobiographical postlude: woman, tragedy, and the making of the universal Jew
Subjects
- Herzl, Theodor, 1860-1904. Altneuland.
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Daniel Deronda.
- Jews -- Identity.
- Gender identity in literature.
- Masculinity in literature.
- Zionism in literature.
- Hebrew literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
- Jewish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Jewish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.