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JAMES JOYCE'S JUDAIC OTHER

Nostalgia Jewishness is a lullaby for old men gumming soaked white bread. ] . GLADSTEIN, modernist Yiddish poet

CONTRAVERSIONS

JEWS AND OTHER DIFFERENCES

DANIEL BOYARIN CHANA KRONFELD, AND NAOMI SEIDMAN,

EDITORS

The task of "The Science of Judaism" is to give Judaism a decent burial. MORITZ STEINSCHNEIDER,

founder of nineteenth-century philological Jewish Studies

MARILYN REIZBAUM

Stanford University Press • Stanford, California

Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 1999 by the Board of Trustees of the

Leland Stanford Junior University

Printed in the United States of America

CIP

data appear at the end of the book

CONTENTS

Vii

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A NOTE TO THE READER

INTRODUCTION

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THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT FOR JOYCE'S "OTHER" AND THE THEMATICS OF JEWISHNESS 12

2

A NIGHTMARE OF HISTORY: IRELAND'S JEWS AND JOYCE'S TEXTS 35

3

A POETICS OF JEWISHNESS

4

THE TEMPTATION OF CIRCE

5

A PISGAH SIGHT OF THE PROMISED LAND

51

89 118

APPENDIX: JOYCE'S JEWISH-RELATED MATERIALS NOTES

137

BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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