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The Accommodated Jew - English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton (Hardcover)
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The Accommodated Jew - English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton (Hardcover)
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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. In 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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