Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Man-Jew-Woman
Part I: Jewish Men, Universal Women: Novel, Nation, and Creation in Daniel Deronda
Chapter 1: Jews, Modernity, and the End of the European Bildungsroman
Chapter 2: On Woman and Nation in the Late Nineteenth Century
Chapter 3: “Who Taught This Foreign Woman About the Ways and Lives of the Jews?”: George Eliot and the Hebrew Renaissance
Part II: Fin-de-siècle Imagi-nation of a Liberal Public Sphere in Palestine
Chapter 4: Herzl’s Old New Land
Part III: The Tragedy of Zionism
Chapter 5: Nationhood and the Birth of Jewish Tragedy at the Fin de Siècle: A Quick Overview
Chapter 6: Kishinev and the Making of a Jewish Tragedy
Chapter 7: “Nietzsche: I Want to Become One”
Chapter 8: Masculinity, Tragedy, and the Nation-State
An Autobiographical Postlude: Woman, Tragedy, and the Making of the Universal Jew
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index