| Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture 1789-1914 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Cheyette, Bryan (Editor), Valman, Nadia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0853035172 ISBN-13: 9780853035176 Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2004 Annotation: This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures Britain, Germany, France and Italy in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. The book scrutinizes assumptions about the relative absence of anti-Semitism in Britain, the image of Germany as resistant to Jewish assimilation, and of Italy as particularly hospitable to Jews. The essays are placed in a comparative framework in order to examine the representation of Jews both within particular national cultures and in the context of Western European modernity. The volume considers the ways in which anti-Semitism functioned within liberal culture in the nineteenth century as part of the broader history of oppression with which Western modernity has been complicit. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Social Science | Jewish Studies |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 2003025083 |
| Series: Parkes-Wiener Series on Jewish Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 5.75" W x 8.43" (1.50 lbs) 247 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. The book scrutinizes assumptions about the relative absence of anti-Semitism in Britain, the image of Germany as resistant to Jewish assimilation, and of Italy as particularly hospitable to Jews. The essays are placed in a comparative framework in order to examine the representation of Jews both within particular national cultures and in the context of Western European modernity. The volume considers the ways in which anti-Semitism functioned within liberal culture in the nineteenth century as part of the broader history of oppression with which Western modernity has been complicit. |