Modernity, culture and 'the Jew'
By: edited by Bryan Cheyette and Laura Marcus.
Contributors: Cheyette, Bryan.; Marcus, Laura.; University of London. Centre for English Studies.
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Jews -- Congresses.; Jews -- Civilization.; Jews -- History -- 1789-1945 -- Congresses.; Jews -- History -- 1945- -- Congresses.; Civilization, Modern -- Congresses.; Postmodernism -- Congresses.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Congresses.
Description: This is an analysis of Jewish history and culture, which relates them to theories of modernity and postmodernity and to debates on ethnicity and postcolonialism. Issues include: literary antisemitism; postmodernity and "the Jew"; and the Holocaust.
Notes: Revised versions of papers originally presented at a University of London conference organized by the Centre for English Studies.