The Temple of Culture: Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America

The Temple of Culture: Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America
ISBN-10
0195151992
ISBN-13
9780195151992
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
264
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
Oxford University Press on Demand
Author
Jonathan Freedman

Description

From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of culture have been fundamentally intertwined with each other. Freedman's book begins by looking at images of the stereotypical Jew in the literary culture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century England and America, and then considers the efforts on the part of Jewish critics and intellectuals to counter this image in the public sphere. It explores the unexpected parallels and ironic reversals between a cultural dispensation that had ambivalent responses to Jews and Jews who became exponents of that very tradition.

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