Byron and the Jews
by Project Muse, Spector, Sheila A.
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
by Project Muse, Spector, Sheila A.
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
by Project Muse, Spector, Sheila A.
fromUPCC book collections on Project MUSE
A study of the effects of antisemitism, the Holocaust, and the search for Jewish identity on Anglo-Jewish writers. Pre-World War II literature reflected the antisemitism of working-class Jewish districts, while many postwar writers describe the inability of middle-class Jews to …
by Saunders, Edward, (Edward Isaac John)
fromCritical lives (London, England)
Born in Budapest in 1905, Arthur Koestler was a pivotal European writer and intellectual who inspired, provoked and intrigued in equal measure. Koestler wrote enduring works of reportage and memoir but he is most famous for his political novel Darkness at Noon, which received wi…
"Jewish Feeling brings together affect theory and Jewish Studies to trace Jewish difference in literary works by nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewish authors. Dwor argues that midrash, a classical rabbinic interpretive form, is a site of Jewish feeling and that literary works underpi…