Thousands of years ago,the Jews were forced to leave their homeland and began to live an exiled life and gradually melted into other neighboring peoples.However,they were not welcomed by others.For thousands of years,...Thousands of years ago,the Jews were forced to leave their homeland and began to live an exiled life and gradually melted into other neighboring peoples.However,they were not welcomed by others.For thousands of years,Jews' "Bible" has become a source of literary and artistic creation,but the image of Jews were excluded from the literary and artistic creation,even if there were some occasions,they were but described as autistic Misers or loan shark.Shakespeare is one of the most outstanding writers;he described many people from all walks of life in his works,the Jews,also included.Based on the corpus of Shakespeare's works,we can see that most adjectives used by Shakespeare to modify the word "Jew"are derogative words.Therefore,we can prove that anti-Semitism does exist in Shakespeare's works.展开更多
There are many studies on Italian and Jewish immigration in the United States, mainly based on socio-demographic statistics, the theme of exile, Fascist anti-Semitism or ethnic conflicts. Many of these researches focu...There are many studies on Italian and Jewish immigration in the United States, mainly based on socio-demographic statistics, the theme of exile, Fascist anti-Semitism or ethnic conflicts. Many of these researches focus primarily on Jewish or Italians, but rarely address at Italian Jews as a whole, and, in their relation with Italian American and Jews. One of the reasons of this paucity of studies, might be the little number of Italian Jews who immigrated to the United States, especially in New York in the 1930s and 1940s, that drove several scholars not to pay really attention to this tiny group in ignoring their presence. Thus, this article aims to investigate through some memoirs, interviews and autobiographies the life of Italian Jews who were living in New York and the Metropolitan area during and after War World II, with particular emphasis to those who were born there in these years and their formation of an American identity. This essay will also clarify an Italian Jewish identity--which made Italian the role of memory and ＂nostalgia＂ in an Italian identity--above all Jews a unique group and a minority within a minority.展开更多
Mark Twain’s distaste for anti-Semitism was well-known.He had published a searing exposéof anti-Semitism in the Austro-Hungarian empire.He had minced no words denouncing pogroms in Russia and had been a featured...Mark Twain’s distaste for anti-Semitism was well-known.He had published a searing exposéof anti-Semitism in the Austro-Hungarian empire.He had minced no words denouncing pogroms in Russia and had been a featured speaker at a benefit for Russian Jews.He had condemned French anti-Semitism in the Dreyfus Affair on numerous occasions.In a widelyread essay called“Concerning the Jews”he had provided his own analysis of the roots of antiSemitism.And when his daughter decided to marry a Russian Jewish pianist and conductor,Twain warmly welcomed the son-in-law into the family.So how can it be that some of Twain’s comments from“Concerning the Jews”regularly get quoted with approval today on white supremacist,neoNazi,and other anti-Semitic websites and blogs?This essay draws on Mark Twain’s writings and biography;on nineteenth-and early twentieth-century social,cultural,and political history;and on scholarship on the history of anti-Semitism and racism to explore some answers to this question.It endeavors to complicate our understanding of Mark Twain’s attitudes—his astute insights and his embarrassing blind spots,his lucidity on the one hand,and his myopia on the other.展开更多
文摘Thousands of years ago,the Jews were forced to leave their homeland and began to live an exiled life and gradually melted into other neighboring peoples.However,they were not welcomed by others.For thousands of years,Jews' "Bible" has become a source of literary and artistic creation,but the image of Jews were excluded from the literary and artistic creation,even if there were some occasions,they were but described as autistic Misers or loan shark.Shakespeare is one of the most outstanding writers;he described many people from all walks of life in his works,the Jews,also included.Based on the corpus of Shakespeare's works,we can see that most adjectives used by Shakespeare to modify the word "Jew"are derogative words.Therefore,we can prove that anti-Semitism does exist in Shakespeare's works.
文摘There are many studies on Italian and Jewish immigration in the United States, mainly based on socio-demographic statistics, the theme of exile, Fascist anti-Semitism or ethnic conflicts. Many of these researches focus primarily on Jewish or Italians, but rarely address at Italian Jews as a whole, and, in their relation with Italian American and Jews. One of the reasons of this paucity of studies, might be the little number of Italian Jews who immigrated to the United States, especially in New York in the 1930s and 1940s, that drove several scholars not to pay really attention to this tiny group in ignoring their presence. Thus, this article aims to investigate through some memoirs, interviews and autobiographies the life of Italian Jews who were living in New York and the Metropolitan area during and after War World II, with particular emphasis to those who were born there in these years and their formation of an American identity. This essay will also clarify an Italian Jewish identity--which made Italian the role of memory and ＂nostalgia＂ in an Italian identity--above all Jews a unique group and a minority within a minority.
文摘Mark Twain’s distaste for anti-Semitism was well-known.He had published a searing exposéof anti-Semitism in the Austro-Hungarian empire.He had minced no words denouncing pogroms in Russia and had been a featured speaker at a benefit for Russian Jews.He had condemned French anti-Semitism in the Dreyfus Affair on numerous occasions.In a widelyread essay called“Concerning the Jews”he had provided his own analysis of the roots of antiSemitism.And when his daughter decided to marry a Russian Jewish pianist and conductor,Twain warmly welcomed the son-in-law into the family.So how can it be that some of Twain’s comments from“Concerning the Jews”regularly get quoted with approval today on white supremacist,neoNazi,and other anti-Semitic websites and blogs?This essay draws on Mark Twain’s writings and biography;on nineteenth-and early twentieth-century social,cultural,and political history;and on scholarship on the history of anti-Semitism and racism to explore some answers to this question.It endeavors to complicate our understanding of Mark Twain’s attitudes—his astute insights and his embarrassing blind spots,his lucidity on the one hand,and his myopia on the other.
