TY - BOOK AU - Dekel,Mikhal ED - Project Muse. TI - The universal Jew: masculinity, modernity, and the Zionist moment SN - 9780810165052 AV - PN842 .D45 2010 U1 - 809.88924 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Evanston, Ill. PB - Northwestern University Press KW - Herzl, Theodor, KW - Eliot, George, KW - Jews KW - Identity KW - Gender identity in literature KW - Masculinity in literature KW - Zionism in literature KW - Hebrew literature, Modern KW - History and criticism KW - Jewish literature KW - 20th century KW - 19th century KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780810165052/ ER -