The universal Jew [electronic resource] : masculinity, modernity, and the Zionist moment / Mikhal Dekel.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2010. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (ix, 267 p. )Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780810165052
- Jews -- Identity
- Gender identity in literature
- Masculinity in literature
- Zionism in literature
- Hebrew literature, Modern -- History and criticism
- Jewish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Jewish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Herzl, Theodor, 1860-1904. Altneuland
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Daniel Deronda
- 809.88924 22
- PN842 .D45 2010
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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