Language:
English
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
The Making of Modern Anglo-Jewry
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1990) 97-111
Keywords:
Farjeon, B. L.
;
Frankau, Julia,
;
Zangwill, Israel,
;
Jews History 19th century
;
Jews History 20th century
;
English literature Jewish authors
;
Jews in literature
;
Jews Fiction Cultural assimilation
Abstract:
Analyzes the works of Benjamin Farjeon, Julia Frankau, and Israel Zangwill in regard to the tensions felt by a particularist minority faced with the tantalizing (but ultimately unreachable) goal of complete assimilation. These writers used prevalent Jewish stereotypes, transforming them in a way acceptable to English society. Farjeon adopted Disraeli's view of the Jews as a superior, aristocratic race. By having various characters marry into the aristocracy he legitimized new wealth and the moral value of Jewish immigrants. Frankau (writing under the pseudonym Frank Danby) was more political, examining Jewish self-hatred while attacking unassimilated Jews. In her later work, she portrayed Christianity as the only way to overcome Jewish particularity. Although Zangwill was regarded as sympathetic to Jewish immigrants, he too concentrated on the conflict between particularism and the radical assimilation which was his solution to the "Jewish question".
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