Reuben Sachs. a Sketch. - Softcover

Levy, Amy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 124138956X ISBN 13: 9781241389567

Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011

Synopsis

Title: Reuben Sachs. A sketch.

Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions

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From the Back Cover

Oscar Wilde wrote of this novel, “Its directness, its uncompromising truths, its depth of feeling, and above all, its absence of any single superfluous word, make Reuben Sachs, in some sort, a classic.” Reuben Sachs, the story of an extended Anglo-Jewish family in London, focuses on the relationship between two cousins, Reuben Sachs and Judith Quixano, and the tensions between their Jewish identities and English society. The novel’s complex and sometimes satirical portrait of Anglo-Jewish life, which was in part a reaction to George Eliot’s romanticized view of Victorian Jews in Daniel Deronda, caused controversy on its first publication. This Broadview edition prints for the first time since its initial publication in The Jewish Chronicle Levy's essay "The Jew in Fiction." Other appendices include George Eliot's essay on anti-Jewish sentiment in Victorian England and a chapter from Israel Zangwill's novel The Children of the Ghetto. Also included is a map of Levy's London with landmarks from her biography and from the "Jewish geography" of Reuben Sachs.

About the Author

Susan David Bernstein is a Professor of English, Jewish Studies, and Women s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Confessional Subjects: Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian Literature and Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 1997).

About this edition

• Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 124138956X
• ISBN 13: 9781241389567
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 318