The universal Jew [electronic resource] : masculinity, modernity, and the Zionist moment / Mikhal Dekel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Man-Jew-woman -- Jewish men, universal women: novel, nation, and creation in Daniel Deronda -- Jews, modernity, and the end of the European bildungsroman -- On woman and nation in the late nineteenth century -- "Who taught this foreign woman about the ways and lives of the Jews?": George Eliot and Hebrew renaissance -- Fin-de-siecle imagi-nation of a liberal public sphere in Palestine -- Herzl's old new land -- The tragedy of Zionism -- Nationhood and the birth of Jewish tragedy at the fin de siecle: a quick overview -- Kishinev and the making of a Jewish tragedy -- "Nietzsche: I want to become one" -- Masculinity, tragedy, and the nation-state -- An autobiographical postlude: woman, tragedy, and the making of the universal Jew.

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