The Jew in the Text: Modernity and the Construction of Identity.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1995. Octavo in dust jacket, 335 pp., b/w photos, notes, notes on the contributors, index. Very Good. Item #12766
ISBN: 0500016674
Articles are, "Starting with the Self: Jewish Identity and Its Representation," Linda Nochlin, "Modernity, Identity, Textuality," Tamar Garb, "Neither Black Nor White: THe Figure of 'the Jew' in Imperial British Literature," Bryan Cheyette, "Charles Dickens' 'Oliver Twist:' Fagin as a Sign," Juliet Stein, "Toulouse-Lautrec's Illustrations for Victor Joze and Georges Clemenceau and their Relationship to french Anti-Semitism of the 1890's," Gale B. Murray, "Joh Singer Sargent's Portraits of the Wetheimer family," Kathleen Adler, "Salome, Syphilis, Sarah Bernhardt, and the Modern Jewess," Sander L. Gilman, "When Is a Jewish Star Just a Star? Interpreting Images of Sarah Bernhardt," Carlo Ockman, "Marcel Proust: In Search of Identity," Julia Kristeva, "From Fin de Siecle to Vichy: The Cultural Hygienics of Camille (Faust) Mauclair," Romy Golan, "Vampires, Viruses, and Lucien Rebatet: Anti-Semitic Art Criticism During Vichy," Michele C. Cone, "El Lissitzky's 'Interchange Stations': The Letter and the Spirit," Judith Glatzer Wechsler, "The Jew in Sartre's 'Reflexions sur la question juive.' An Excercise in Historical Reading," Susan Rubin Suleiman, "I...AM.A": Addressing the Jewish Question in Joyce's 'Ulysses,'" Steven Connor, "Assimilation, Entertainment, and the Hollywood Solution," Claire Pajaczkowska and Barry Curtis, "'A Little Child Shall Lead Them': The Jewish Family Romance," Marshall Berman, "Parvenu or Palimsest: Some Tracings of the Jew in Modern France," Adrian Rifkin, "The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Memory and the Politics of Identity," James E. Young.
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