'The Jew' in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Eitan Bar-Yosef, Nadia Valman

   Pages 1-27

3. Jews and Jewels: A Symbolic Economy on the South African Diamond Fields

   • Adrienne Munich

   Pages 28-44

4. Little Jew Boys Made Good: Immigration, the South African War, and Anglo-Jewish Fiction

   • Nadia Valman

   Pages 45-64

5. Acting like an Alien: ‘Civil’ Antisemitism, the Rhetoricized Jew, and Early Twentieth-Century British Immigration Law

   • Lara Trubowitz

   Pages 65-79

6. Commerce, State, and Anti-Alienism: Balancing Britain’s Interests in the Late-Victorian Period

   • Nicholas J. Evans

   Pages 80-97

7. The Ghosts of Kishinev in the East End: Responses to a Pogrom in the Jewish London of 1903

   • Ben Gidley

   Pages 98-112

8. Jews, Englishmen, and Folklorists: The Scholarship of Joseph Jacobs and Moses Gaster

   • Simon Rabinovitch

   Pages 113-130

9. Imperial Zion: Israel Zangwill and the English Origins of Territorialism

   • David Glover

   Pages 131-143

10. Zionism, Territorialism, Race, and Nation in the Thought and Politics of Israel Zangwill

    • Meri-Jane Rochelson

    Pages 144-160

11. ‘By Whom Shall She Arise? For She Is Small’: The Wales-Israel Tradition in the Edwardian Period

    • Jasmine Donahaye

    Pages 161-182

12. Spying Out the Land: The Zionist Expedition to East Africa, 1905

    • Eitan Bar-Yosef

    Pages 183-200

13. Herzl, the Scramble, and a Meeting that Never Happened: Revisiting the Notion of an African Zion

    • Mark Levene

    Pages 201-220

14. Back Matter

    Pages 221-241

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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.

• culture
• fiction
• Great Britain
• rhetoric
• Tradition
• British and Irish Literature

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

• Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

  Eitan Bar-Yosef

• Queen Mary, University of London, UK

  Nadia Valman

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

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