The Universal Jew: Masculinity, Modernity, and the Zionist Moment

by Mikhal Dekel

The Universal Jew analyzes literary images of the Jewish nation and the Jewish national subject at Zionism's formative moment. In a series of original readings of late nineteenth-century texts--from George Eliot's Daniel Deronda to Theodor Herzl's Altneuland to the bildungsromane of Russian Hebrew and Yiddish writers--Mikhal Dekel demonstrates the aesthetic and political function of literary works in the making of early Zionist consciousness...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810127172
• ISBN13: 9780810127173
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"