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Modernity, culture, and 'the Jew'

by Bryan Cheyette, Laura Marcus

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This is an analysis of Jewish history and culture, which relates them to theories of modernity and postmodernity and to debates on ethnicity and postcolonialism. Issues include: literary antisemitism; postmodernity and "the Jew"; and the Holocaust.

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