Rachel and Her Race
Patrick Parrinder, 18 August 1994
Constructions of ‘the Jew’ in English Literature and Society: Racial Representations, 1875-1945
by Bryan Cheyette.
Cambridge, 301 pp., £35, November 1993,0 521 44355 5 Show More
by Bryan Cheyette.
Cambridge, 301 pp., £35, November 1993,
The Jewish Heritage in British History: Englishness and Jewishness
edited by Tony Kushner.
Cass, 234 pp., £25, January 1992,0 7146 3464 6 Show More
edited by Tony Kushner.
Cass, 234 pp., £25, January 1992,
“... Jew, like Karl Marx or Lord Beaconsfield. On the other hand, she did not originate what Bryan Cheyette would call a ‘semitic discourse’, though she certainly became the object of one. Disraeli rhapsodised over the ‘semitic principle’ which, he thought, ensured that true Jews were also true-blue Conservatives. Marx, most notoriously in ... ”
