"The  Jew" in late-Victorian and Edwardian culture
Subtitle: between the East End and East Africa
By: edited by Eitan Bar-Yosef and Nadia Valman.
Contributors: Bar-Yosef, Eitan.; Valman, Nadia.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781403997029
Subjects: Jews -- England -- History -- 19th century; Jews -- England -- History -- 20th century; Jews -- South Africa -- History -- 19th century; Jews -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century; Jewish literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism; Zionism -- Great Britain -- History; England -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : between the East End and East Africa: rethinking images of "the Jew" in late-Victorian and Edwardian culture / Eitan Bar-Yosef and Nadia Valman; title: Jews and jewels: a symbolic economy on the South African diamond fields / Adrienne Munich; title: Little Jew boys made good: immigration, the South African war, and Anglo-Jewish fiction / Nadia Valman; title: Acting like an alien: "civil" antisemitism, the rhetoricized Jew, and early twentieth-century British immigration law / Lara Trubowitz; title: Commerce, state, and anti-alienism: balancing Britain's interests in the late-Victorian period / Nick Evans; title: The ghosts of Kishinev in the East End: responses to a pogrom in the Jewish London of 1903 / Ben Gidley; title: Jews, Englishmen, and folklorists: the scholarship of Joseph Jacobs and Moses Gaster / Simon Rabinovitch; title: Imperial Zion: Israel Zangwill and the English origins of territorialism / David Glover; title: Zionism, territorialism, race, and nation in the thought and politics of Israel Zangwill / Meri-Jane Rochelson; title: By whom shall she arise? for she is small: the Wales-Israel tradition in the Edwardian period / Jasmine Donahaye; title: Spying out the land: the Zionist expedition to East Africa, 1905 / Eitan Bar-Yosef; title: Herzl, the scramble, and a meeting that never happened: revisiting the notion of an African Zion / Mark Levene.