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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
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A NIGHTMARE OF HISTORY: IRELAND'S JEWS AND JOYCE'S TEXTS 35
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A POETICS OF JEWISHNESS
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THE TEMPTATION OF CIRCE
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A PISGAH SIGHT OF THE PROMISED LAND
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APPENDIX: JOYCE'S JEWISH-RELATED MATERIALS NOTES
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BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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