'The Jew' in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture

Between the East End and East Africa

E. Bar-Yosef, N. Valman, E. Bar-Yosef, N. Valman

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9781349545957, 9781403997029
• eBook ISBN: 9780230594371
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The turbulent period from the Boer War to the introduction of the Aliens Act was marked by contradictory imaginings of 'the Jew' - pauper/capitalist, separatist/imposter, ideal colonizer/undesirable immigrant, familiar/alien. This new collection considers the wider colonial context in whichthese ambivalent attitudes to Jews were produced.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Note on Documentation
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: Between the East End and East Africa: Rethinking Images of ‘the Jew’ in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture
• 1 Jews and Jewels: A Symbolic Economy on the South African Diamond Fields
• 2 Little Jew Boys Made Good: Immigration, the South African War, and Anglo-Jewish Fiction
• 3 Acting like an Alien: ‘Civil’ Antisemitism, the Rhetoricized Jew, and Early Twentieth-Century British Immigration Law
• 4 Commerce, State, and Anti-Alienism: Balancing Britain’s Interests in the Late-Victorian Period
• 5 The Ghosts of Kishinev in the East End: Responses to a Pogrom in the Jewish London of 1903
• 6 Jews, Englishmen, and Folklorists: The Scholarship of Joseph Jacobs and Moses Gaster
• 7 Imperial Zion: Israel Zangwill and the English Origins of Territorialism
• 8 Zionism, Territorialism, Race, and Nation in the Thought and Politics of Israel Zangwill
• 9 ‘By Whom Shall She Arise? For She Is Small’: The Wales-Israel Tradition in the Edwardian Period
• 10 Spying Out the Land: The Zionist Expedition to East Africa, 1905
• 11 Herzl, the Scramble, and a Meeting that Never Happened: Revisiting the Notion of an African Zion
• Bibliography
• Index