Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans

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Shows how the earliest representations of Jewish characters on American stages mirrored treatment of Jewish Americans outside the playhouse

Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans

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While battling negative stereotypes, American Jews carved out new roles for themselves within the first theatrical entertainments in America. Jewish citizens we

Sensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American Literature

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This book examines the charged but mostly overlooked presence of the sensational Jew in antebellum literature. This stereotyped character appears primarily in t

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics

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This volume addresses the political contexts in which nineteenth-century American literature was conceived, consumed, and criticized. It shows how a variety of

Once We Were Slaves

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An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal a