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What does the "Jew" stand for in modern culture? The conscious or unconscious, often hysterical repetition of myths and exaggerations, and the repertory of cliches, fantasies and phobias surrounding the stereotypes of the Jew and the Jewess, have meant that they are figures frequently represented both in the world of literature and art and in the industries of popular culture. Taking particular instances of the portrayal of the Jew in fiction, painting and prints, in film, caricature, pamphlets, medical journals, propaganda and architecture - in works by authors and artists as different as Dickens, Lautrec, Proust, Sargent, Joyce and Sartre - this book demonstrates how representations of the Jew are embodied in some of the best-known cultural products, situated "in the text" itself, not behind or beyond it. In specially-written essays by cultural historians and critics, including Julia Kristeva, Marshall Berman and Sander Gilman, this book explores the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which Jewish identity was conceived and expressed in modern European and American culture.
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The concept of being Jewish in the modern world is the subject of this collection of specially commissioned essays. The place of the Jew as the other is brilliantly explicated in essays on Tolouse-Lautrec, Bernhardt, Proust, Mauclair, and Rebatet. Lissitzky's use of Hebrew letters in his paintings is explained as a specific Jewish mystical undertaking, while Leopold Bloom is understood to be the Jew as everyman. Modern anti-Semitism brings into question the projects of the Enlightenment and literary realism, as is shown in essays on Sartre and Dickens. Closer to home are their essays on Hollywood and the Holocaust Museum. A fascinating book full of sociological, literary, and methodological insights; recommended for religion and literature collections.?Gene Shaw, NYPL
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- PublisherThames & Hudson
- Publication date1996
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- ISBN 13 9780500016671
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- Number of pages335
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