The Temple Of Culture

Assimilation And Anti-Semitism In Literary Anglo-America

Bibliographic Data

ID19980985
AuthorsJonathan Freedman (0000-0002-1361-797X, corresponding author)
Year2000
Pages264
Publication date2000-02-24
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe temple of culture (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780195131574.001.0001
OpenAlexW4388258708
Open LibraryOL50157M
ISBN9780195131574
LanguageEN
Citations received15

From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of “culture” have been fundamentally intertwined with each other. Freedman's book begins by looking at images of the stereotypical Jew in the literary culture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century England and America, and then considers the efforts on the part of Jewish critics and intellectuals to counter this image in the public sphere. It explores the unexpected parallels and ironic reversals between a cultural dispensation that had ambivalent responses to Jews and Jews who became exponents of that very tradition

Ambivalence · Ancient history · Art · Art history · Freedman · Jewish culture · Judaism · Literature · Parallels · Political science · Politics · Popular culture · Psychoanalysis · Public culture · Temple · Theology · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · American literature · Antiasemitism · Antisemitism · Antisemitism in literature · Criticism and interpretation · Cultural assimilation · England · English literature · English-speaking countries · henry James (1843-1916) · History and criticism · Intellectual life · Jewish authors · Jews · Jews in literature · Judaism and literature · united states

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