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The universal Jew : masculinity, modernity, and the Zionist moment
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The universal Jew : masculinity, modernity, and the Zionist moment / Mikhal Dekel.
ISBN
9780810127173 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0810127172 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2010.
Physical Description
ix, 267 p. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 25, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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-siècle 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 siècle: 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.
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