"Dances and balls appear throughout world literature as venues for young people to meet, flirt, and form relationships, as any reader of 'Pride and Prejudice', 'War and Peace', or 'Romeo and Juliet' can attest. In the context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Jewish culture, …
"In this book, Sephardism is defined not as an expression of Sephardic identity but as a politicized literary metaphor"--Provided by publisher.
Philip Roth and the Jews
by Cooper, Alan
fromSUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
This book proposes that the idea of the Jews in European cultures has little to do with actual Jews, but rather is derived from the conception of Jews as Christianity's paradigmatic Other, eternally reenacting their morally ambiguous New Testament role as the Christ-bearing and …
Livak proposes that the idea of the Jews in European cultures has little to do with actual Jews, but rather is derived from the conception of Jews as Christianity's paradigmatic Other, eternally reenacting their morally ambiguous New Testament role as the Christ-bearing and Chri…
