| The Temple of Culture: Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America Contributor(s): Freedman, Jonathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195131576 ISBN-13: 9780195131574 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $232.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2000 Annotation: From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of "culture" have been fundamentally intertwined with each other. Freedman's book begins by looking at images of the stereotypical Jew in the literary culture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century England and America, and then considers the efforts on the part of Jewish critics and intellectuals to counter this image in the public sphere. It explores the unexpected parallels and ironic reversals between a cultural dispensation that had ambivalent responses to Jews and Jews who became exponents of that very tradition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Jewish - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 305.892 |
| LCCN: 99054306 |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.43" W x 9.51" (1.20 lbs) 276 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of culture have been fundamentally intertwined with each other. Freedman's book begins by looking at images of the stereotypical Jew in the literary culture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century England and America, and then considers the efforts on the part of Jewish critics and intellectuals to counter this image in the public sphere. It explores the unexpected parallels and ironic reversals between a cultural dispensation that had ambivalent responses to Jews and Jews who became exponents of that very tradition. |