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Introduction 1
Sheila A. Spector
Part I Cultural Contexts 17
1. Great Britain or Judea Nova? National Identity,
Property, and the Jewish Naturalization
Controversy of 1753 19
Alan H. Singer
2. Abraham Goldsmid: Money Magician in the
Popular Press 37
Mark L. Schoenfield
3. Halakhic Romanticism: Wordsworth, the Rabbis,
and Torah 61
Lloyd Davies
4. "What Are Those Golden Builders Doing?":
Mendelssohn, Blake, and the (Un)Building of Jerusalem 79
Leslie Tannenbaum
Part II British Romantics and the Haskalah 91
5. "For Luz is a Good Joke": Thomas Lovell Beddoes
and Jewish Eschatology 93
Christopher Moylan
6. Scott's Hebraic Historicism 105
Esther Schor
7. Maria Edgeworth's Harrington: The Price of
Sympathetic Representation 121
Neville Hoad
8. Imagining "the jew": Dickens' Romantic Heritage 139
Efraim Sicher
Part III Jewish Writers and British Romanticism 157
9. British-Jewish Writing of the Romantic Era and the
Problem of Modernity: The Example of David Levi 159
Michael Scrivener
10. Not for "Antiquaries," but for "Philosophers":
Isaac D'Israeli's Talmudic Critique and His
Talmudical Way with Literature 179
Stuart Peterfieund
11. Hyman Hurwitz's Hebrew Tales (1826): Redeeming the
Talmudic Garden 197
Judith W Page
12. Grace Aguilar: Rewriting Scott Rewriting History 215
Elizabeth Fay
13. Alroy as Disraeli's "Ideal Ambition" 235
Sheila A. Spector
14. Harold's Complaint, or Assimilation in Full Bloom 249
David Kaufinann
Glossary 265
Works Cited 269
Index 287
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
English literature Jewish authors History and criticism,
Judaism and literature Great Britain History 19th century,
English literature 19th century History and criticism,
Jews Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century,
Romanticism Great Britain, Judaism in literature, Jews in literature