'The Jew' in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa(Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)

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 which these ambivalent attitudes to Jews were produced.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Note on Documentation Introduction: Between the East End and East Africa: Rethinking Images of 'the Jew' in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture; E.Bar-Yosef  & N.Valman Jews and Jewels: A Symbolic Economy on the South African Diamond Fields; A.Munich Little Jew Boys Made Good: Immigration, the South African War, and Anglo-Jewish Fiction; N.Valman Acting Like an Alien: 'Civil' Antisemitism, the Rhetoricized Jew, and Early Twentieth-Century British Immigration Law; L.Trubowitz Commerce, State, and Anti-Alienism: Balancing Britain's Interests in the Late-Victorian Period; N.Evans The Ghosts of Kishinev in the East End: Responses to a Pogrom in the Jewish London of 1903; B.Gidley Jews, Englishmen, and Folklorists: The Scholarship of Joseph Jacobs and Moses Gaster; S.Rabinovitch Imperial Zion: Israel Zangwill and the English Origins of Territorialism; D.Glover Zionism, Territorialism, Race, and Nation in the Thought and Politics of Israel Zangwill; M.Rochelson 'By Whom Shall She Arise? For She Is Small': The Wales-Israel Tradition in the Edwardian Period; J.Donahaye Spying Out the Land: The Zionist Expedition to East Africa, 1905; E.Bar-Yosef Herzl, the Scramble, and a Meeting that Never Happened: Revisiting the Notion of an African Zion; M.Levene Bibliography Index

About the Author :
JASMINE DONAHAYE is Research Associate at the Centre for Research in the English Literature and Language of Wales (CREW), at Swansea University, UK NICHOLAS J. EVANS is a Lecturer in Slavery Studies at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE) and the History Department at the University of Hull, UK BEN GIDLEY is a research fellow at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK DAVID GLOVER is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton, UK MARK LEVENE is Reader in Comparative History and a member of the Parkes Institute for Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton, UK ADRIENNE MUNICH holds positions in Art, Cultural Studies, English, and Women's Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA SIMON RABINOVITCH is the Alexander Grass Post-Doctoral Associate at the Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of History, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA MERI-JANE ROCHELSON is Professor of English at Florida International University, USA LARA TRUBOWITZ is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa, USA

Review :
'This stimulating collection helps us to better understand the colonialism in Zionism as a phenomenon of its day.' - Toby Lichtig, TLS