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Cather’s representation of this Jewish character is deeply marked by an ambivalence that Susan Meyer

shown as being at work in the representation of Louie in The Professor’s House.The Palmers were not Jewish

Nathanmeyer Jewish.

in Thea’s fate” (8) and concludes her longer reading of “The Diamond Mine” by suggesting that the Jewish

turn of mind in his family to a particular place, however, but rather to a person: Louie, who is Jewish

relationship to place through themes of diaspora and exile.Howard Wettstein explains that, especially from a Jewish

occurs in 1876, and by 1881 the term was used by Encyclopaedia Britannica to refer specifically to Jewish

Diasporas and Exiles: Varieties of Jewish Identity. Ed. Howard Wettstein.

For example, the third-person narrator uses Jewish stereotypes to describe Becky: she is “a thin, tense-faced

Despite the stock Jewish stereotypes Cather deploys, she also creates in Becky and Rena two sympathetic

New waves of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe—Catholic, Orthodox, and Jewish rather than the

In his view, since these major figures were slaves and are regarded as significant figures in Jewish

In “Scandal,” Siegmund Stein, a Jewish “department store millionaire,” attempts to fool the public by

Both “Scandal” and “Ardessa” contain uncomfortable stereotypes of Jewish characters.11 And the portrait

“Willa Cather and the Geography of Jewishness.”

In addition to being ambitious and internationally connected, Louie is also Jewish, a fact that enables

While the Jewish banker, unlike the storekeeper, was beyond the immediate experience of the average American

, he learned about that evil figure from Greenback leaders who warned of international Jewish banking

Peter's resistance to his Jewish son-in-law by suggesting that Louie is not really "foreign" at all,

adequately account for the ambivalence of Marsellus's portrait, nor does it explore the relevance of Jewish

In Louis Lambert he draws on these in a benign way, inventing a Jewish ancestor for the young woman with

Her features showed Jewish beauty in the purest form: those oval lines, so expansive and virginal, have

York universities, 'violently inoculated with Freud,' and most likely of foreign descent, perhaps Jewish

The postwar commercial development of the Outland engine falls to the Jewish arriviste Louie Marsellus

Isabelle married Jan Hambourg, a concert violinist of Russian Jewish and English background who was known

Home: Wharton, Cather, the Jews, and the First World War," Susan Meyer focuses on the Professor's Jewish

Peter also glimpses his wife and his Jewish son-in-law, Louie Marsellus, "a little lacquer table between

A considerably higher proportion of the Jewish than the non-Jewish population served in the United States

Even Jewish attorney Louis Marshall, president of the American Jewish Committee, commented that he saw

20 percent of France's Jewish population, fought for France (Vital 650).

Good Americans: Italian and Jewish Immigrants During the First World War.

At the behest of the CTCA the YMCA, the YWCA, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the

capitalist society can be reimagined by reading its fragmentary forms against the grain of progress.The Jewish

All biblical citations come from Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society

desires.Beyond this public outburst (more noted now for its nativism—the young critic is of "German, Jewish

Brill himself, the Austrian Jewish immigrant who translated Freud into English and headed the American

While "Esther"-a Jewish hero who became queen of Persia and saved her people from massacre-at least hints

with other early modernists, Schroeter adds-stereotypes of the "poolroom" variety that identify Jewishness

One then wonders why she gave that character a "neutral" name and omitted any reference to Jewishness

Although Cather's Jewish friends and acquaintances were for the most part assimilated, secular Jews,

A lengthy article on Jewish immigrants in New York, Hendrick's "The Great Jewish Invasion," appeared

"The Great Jewish Invasion." McClure's Magazine 28 (Jan. 1907): 307-21.Miller, Robert K.