The universal Jew : masculinity, modernity, and the Zionist moment /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dekel, Mikhal, 1965-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2010.
Subjects:	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. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

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.