Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Man-Jew-woman
  • Jewish men, universal women: novel, nation, and creation in Daniel Deronda
  • Jews, modernity, and the end of the European bildungsroman
  • On woman and nation in the late nineteenth century
  • "Who taught this foreign woman about the ways and lives of the Jews?": George Eliot and Hebrew renaissance
  • Fin-de-siecle imagi-nation of a liberal public sphere in Palestine
  • Herzl's old new land
  • The tragedy of Zionism
  • Nationhood and the birth of Jewish tragedy at the fin de siecle: a quick overview
  • Kishinev and the making of a Jewish tragedy
  • "Nietzsche: I want to become one"
  • Masculinity, tragedy, and the nation-state
  • An autobiographical postlude: woman, tragedy, and the making of the universal Jew.