The universal Jew
Subtitle: masculinity, modernity, and the Zionist moment
By: Mikhal Dekel
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780810127173
Subjects: Jewish literature; History and criticism; Modern Hebrew literature; Zionism in literature; Masculinity in literature; Gender identity in literature; Jews; Identity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Man-Jew-woman; title: Jewish men, universal women: novel, nation, and creation in Daniel Deronda; title: Jews, modernity, and the end of the European bildungsroman; title: On woman and nation in the late nineteenth century; title: "Who taught this foreign woman about the ways and lives of the Jews?": George Eliot and Hebrew renaissance; title: Fin-de-siècle imagi-nation of a liberal public sphere in Palestine; title: Herzl's old new land; title: The tragedy of Zionism; title: Nationhood and the birth of Jewish tragedy at the fin de siècle: a quick overview; title: Kishinev and the making of a Jewish tragedy; title: "Nietzsche: I want to become one"; title: Masculinity, tragedy, and the nation-state; title: An autobiographical postlude: woman, tragedy, and the making of the universal Jew.