... of the Jew into a conventional marriage plot reflects a problem in Trollope's construction of authorship, a problem that inheres in how literary commercialism and literary professionalism might represent mutually exclusive value postulates. Max Weber's distinction between formal rationality and substantive...

..., 2007), pp. 242, cloth, $90.00. Maren Tova Linett grounds her important study on the claim that feminist writers between the world wars used the figure of the Jew to formulate their own identities in the literary marketplace. While the idea that Jewishness served as an important means...

... in relation to the problem of prejudice in the decades after the French Revolution, when both the social status of the Jews and the legal status of the trade in African slaves had become central issues of political, religious, and moral concern. These cases of injustice had become publicly salient...

.... The Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad . London : Chatto and Windus , 1973 . Nora Pierre . “Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Mémoire.” Trans. Roudebush Marc . Representations 26 ( 1989 ): 7 – 24 . Novak Daniel . “A Model Jew: ‘Literary...

... journal is that cultural identity-particularly being Jewish and Hungarian at such a precarious moment in history-is fraught with ambivalence. Having been born in Hungary, the author and her family were Hungarian citizens. Cul- turally, they were Hungarian as well as being observant Jews...

... grandfather from the Nazis. In the course of this journey, the figure of Alex’s grandfather increases in significance and, in the novel’s climactic scene, recounts betraying his best friend to the Einsatzgruppen by pointing at him and saying, “he is a Jew” (250). In Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close...

... disparate and covert feelings of possessiveness, obsession, shame, guilt, secretiveness, hesitancy, and blockage." That shocking images of the Holocaust appalled and shaped the collective memory of non-Jews as well as Jews born right after the war is exemplified by Joyce Carol Oates's revealing...

... to Mendel Shpilman, the disowned son of the most powerful rabbi in Sitka, Alaska. But this body, too, contains conspiratorial multitudes: the local investigation into Mendel’s murder reveals a globe-trotting plot—organized by Sitka’s Orthodox Jews and supported by the United States government—to bomb...

... . Kächler , Uwe . Die Jesusgestalt in der Erzählprosa des deutschen Naturalismus (The Figure of Jesus in the Narrative Prose of German Naturalism) . Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1993 . Kalmar , Ivan Davidson . “Jesus Never Wore a Turban: Orientalism, the Jews, and Christian Art.” Orientalism...

... demonstrated. Arendt would have understood these developments all too well. To be “denationalized,” as the Jews were under Nazi rule, means that those who are ostracized from the nation-state immediately risk being regarded as somehow less than human, as someone undeserving of what she famously called...

... Triestine tryst with his Jewish pupil Amalia Popper, we first discover Joyce's in- ability to satisfy his lechery and then his patent hostility towards women and Jews when his attentions are slighted. In Mahaffey's narrative, this encounter, with its complex of power relations, the impoverished...

... often proclaimed socialist politics, yet they very carefully held themselves apart from working-class identity (28). More damning is their relationship to Jewish populations. In their guise as homeless wanderers, Jews might be taken for doubles of the bohemian; in actual fact, Jews were vilified...

... poem of abjection, tracing the political unconscious of the rise of fascism, as lesbians, blacks, circus people, Jews, and transvestites—outsiders all—bow down before Hitler’s truly perverted Levitical prescriptions for racial purity” (230–31). 7 Lawrence’s remark says a good deal...

... not hear the word of God but he constantly strains his ears to catch its echo; and even though it tarries he awaits it daily in that same agonized posture of atten- tiveness as the man from the country or as the Jew awaiting the footsteps of the Messiah (98-99). The reader has no doubt already...

... of nationalism Zionism and the Palestinian national movements conform but, rather, what their mundane significance is for their respective adherents in particular daily circumstances. The dissymmetry between Israeli Jews and Palestinians, with its dire consequences, is a matter of particular political praxes...

... pederasty, and it cannot speak of the Jew's essential humanity. Mungo exercises a powerful self-censorship in his dealings with Pringle, for which he is chastised by hsghosts: "Perhaps you should curse them outright as white devils, tell the story as it is and not bother...

... to various acquaintances. Initiating the joke, Bloom also aggressively distinguishes himself from its butt, Reuben J. Dodd, in order both to indicate his difference from another Jew and to make compact with the men in the carriage. But Cunningham, in aggressively usurping the story telling, also exerts...

... . “Jews, Multiculturalism, and Boasian Anthropology.” American Anthropologist 99 . 4 ( 1997 ): 731 – 45 . Geertz Clifford . The Interpretation of Cultures . New York : Basic , 1973 . Gilkeson John S. Anthropologists and the Rediscovery of America, 1886–1965 . New York...