’The Jew’ in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture

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.

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.

Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Note on Documentation Introduction: Between the East End and East Africa: Rethinking Images of 'the Jew' in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture; E.Bar-Yosef  & N.Valman Jews and Jewels: A Symbolic Economy on the South African Diamond Fields; A.Munich Little Jew Boys Made Good: Immigration, the South African War, and Anglo-Jewish Fiction; N.Valman Acting Like an Alien: 'Civil' Antisemitism, the Rhetoricized Jew, and Early Twentieth-Century British Immigration Law; L.Trubowitz Commerce, State, and Anti-Alienism: Balancing Britain's Interests in the Late-Victorian Period; N.Evans The Ghosts of Kishinev in the East End: Responses to a Pogrom in the Jewish London of 1903; B.Gidley Jews, Englishmen, and Folklorists: The Scholarship of Joseph Jacobs and Moses Gaster; S.Rabinovitch Imperial Zion: Israel Zangwill and the English Origins of Territorialism; D.Glover Zionism, Territorialism, Race, and Nation in the Thought and Politics of Israel Zangwill; M.Rochelson 'By Whom Shall She Arise? For She Is Small': The Wales-Israel Tradition in the Edwardian Period; J.Donahaye Spying Out the Land: The Zionist Expedition to East Africa, 1905; E.Bar-Yosef Herzl, the Scramble, and a Meeting that Never Happened: Revisiting the Notion of an African Zion; M.Levene Bibliography Index