Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature: A Reader (Stanford by Jonathan M. Hess,Maurice Samuels,Nadia Vaiman

By Jonathan M. Hess,Maurice Samuels,Nadia Vaiman

fresh scholarship has delivered to gentle the life of a dynamic global of in particular Jewish kinds of literature within the 19th century—fiction by means of Jews, approximately Jews, and infrequently designed principally for Jews. This quantity makes this fabric obtainable to English audio system for the 1st time, providing a range of Jewish fiction from France, nice Britain, and the German-speaking international. The tales are remarkably various, starting from historic fiction to sentimental romance, to social satire, yet all of them interact with key dilemmas together with assimilation, nationwide allegiance, and the location of girls. delivering specified insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impression of modernity, the literature accumulated during this ebook will supply compelling interpreting for all these drawn to sleek Jewish heritage and tradition, even if common readers, scholars, or scholars.

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