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The Resource The accommodated Jew : English antisemitism from Bede to Milton, Kathy Lavezzo

The accommodated Jew : English antisemitism from Bede to Milton, Kathy Lavezzo

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England during the Middle Ages was at the forefront of European antisemitism. It was in medieval Norwich that the notorious "blood libel" was first introduced when a resident accused the city's Jewish leaders of abducting and ritually murdering a local boy. England also enforced legislation demanding that Jews wear a badge of infamy, and in 1290, it became the first European nation to expel forcibly all of its Jewish residents. In 'The Accommodated Jew', Kathy Lavezzo rethinks the complex and contradictory relation between England?s rejection of?the Jew? and the centrality of Jews to classic English literature. Drawing on literary, historical, and cartographic texts, she charts an entangled Jewish imaginative presence in English culture. 00In a sweeping view that extends from the Anglo-Saxon period to the late seventeenth century, Lavezzo tracks how English writers from Bede to Milton imagine Jews via buildings?tombs, latrines and especially houses?that support fantasies of exile. Epitomizing this trope is the blood libel and its implication that Jews cannot be accommodated in England because of the anti-Christian violence they allegedly perform in their homes. In the Croxton Play of the Sacrament, Marlowe?s The Jew of Malta, and Shakespeare?s The Merchant of Venice, the Jewish house not only serves as a lethal trap but also as the site of an emerging bourgeoisie incompatible with Christian pieties. Lavezzo reveals the central place of?the Jew? in the slow process by which a Christian?nation of shopkeepers? negotiated their relationship to the urban capitalist sensibility they came to embrace and embody. In the book?s epilogue, she advances her inquiry into Victorian England and the relationship between Charles Dickens (whose Fagin is the second most infamous Jew in English literature after Shylock) and the Jewish couple that purchased his London home, Tavistock House, showing how far relations between gentiles and Jews in England had (and had not) evolved
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eng
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1 online resource (xv, 374 pages)
Contents
  • Sepulchral Jews and stony Christians : supersession in Bede and Cynewulf
  • Medieval urban noir : the Jewish house, the Christian mob, and the city in post-conquest England
  • The minster and the privy : Jews, lending and the making of Christian space in Chaucer's England
  • In the shadow of Moyse's hall : Jews, the city, and commerce in the Croxton play of the sacrament
  • Failures of fortification and the counting houses of The Jew of Malta
  • Readmission and displacement : Menasseh ben Israel, William Prynne, John Milton
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9781501706158
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The accommodated Jew : English antisemitism from Bede to Milton
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The accommodated Jew
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English antisemitism from Bede to Milton
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Kathy Lavezzo
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Language
eng
Summary
England during the Middle Ages was at the forefront of European antisemitism. It was in medieval Norwich that the notorious "blood libel" was first introduced when a resident accused the city's Jewish leaders of abducting and ritually murdering a local boy. England also enforced legislation demanding that Jews wear a badge of infamy, and in 1290, it became the first European nation to expel forcibly all of its Jewish residents. In 'The Accommodated Jew', Kathy Lavezzo rethinks the complex and contradictory relation between England?s rejection of?the Jew? and the centrality of Jews to classic English literature. Drawing on literary, historical, and cartographic texts, she charts an entangled Jewish imaginative presence in English culture. 00In a sweeping view that extends from the Anglo-Saxon period to the late seventeenth century, Lavezzo tracks how English writers from Bede to Milton imagine Jews via buildings?tombs, latrines and especially houses?that support fantasies of exile. Epitomizing this trope is the blood libel and its implication that Jews cannot be accommodated in England because of the anti-Christian violence they allegedly perform in their homes. In the Croxton Play of the Sacrament, Marlowe?s The Jew of Malta, and Shakespeare?s The Merchant of Venice, the Jewish house not only serves as a lethal trap but also as the site of an emerging bourgeoisie incompatible with Christian pieties. Lavezzo reveals the central place of?the Jew? in the slow process by which a Christian?nation of shopkeepers? negotiated their relationship to the urban capitalist sensibility they came to embrace and embody. In the book?s epilogue, she advances her inquiry into Victorian England and the relationship between Charles Dickens (whose Fagin is the second most infamous Jew in English literature after Shylock) and the Jewish couple that purchased his London home, Tavistock House, showing how far relations between gentiles and Jews in England had (and had not) evolved
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http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Lavezzo, Kathy
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illustrations
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index present
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In English
Literary form
non fiction
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  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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  • Jews in literature
  • Antisemitism in literature
  • English literature
  • English literature
  • English literature
  • Antisemitism
  • Jews
  • HISTORY
  • Antisemitism
  • Antisemitism in literature
  • English literature
  • English literature
  • English literature
  • Jews
  • Jews in literature
  • England
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The accommodated Jew : English antisemitism from Bede to Milton, Kathy Lavezzo
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unknown
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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online resource
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rdacarrier
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multicolored
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text
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rdacontent
Contents
Sepulchral Jews and stony Christians : supersession in Bede and Cynewulf -- Medieval urban noir : the Jewish house, the Christian mob, and the city in post-conquest England -- The minster and the privy : Jews, lending and the making of Christian space in Chaucer's England -- In the shadow of Moyse's hall : Jews, the city, and commerce in the Croxton play of the sacrament -- Failures of fortification and the counting houses of The Jew of Malta -- Readmission and displacement : Menasseh ben Israel, William Prynne, John Milton
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ocn965831622
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xv, 374 pages)
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unknown
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online
Isbn
9781501706158
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unknown
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computer
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rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Note
JSTOR
Other control number
10.7591/9781501706158
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illustrations
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22573/ctt1d25wf5
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not applicable
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unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)965831622
Label
The accommodated Jew : English antisemitism from Bede to Milton, Kathy Lavezzo
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Sepulchral Jews and stony Christians : supersession in Bede and Cynewulf -- Medieval urban noir : the Jewish house, the Christian mob, and the city in post-conquest England -- The minster and the privy : Jews, lending and the making of Christian space in Chaucer's England -- In the shadow of Moyse's hall : Jews, the city, and commerce in the Croxton play of the sacrament -- Failures of fortification and the counting houses of The Jew of Malta -- Readmission and displacement : Menasseh ben Israel, William Prynne, John Milton
Control code
ocn965831622
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xv, 374 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781501706158
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Note
JSTOR
Other control number
10.7591/9781501706158
Other physical details
illustrations
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctt1d25wf5
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)965831622

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