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The Contemporary review, 2012-06, Vol.294 (1705), p.169
Ort / Verlag
Cheam: Contemporary Review Company Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
EBSCOhost Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Baron revisits the philosemitism of two nineteenth-century authors George Eliot and Leopold Sacher-Masoch. Both Eliot and Sacher-Masoch, known for their secular outlook but who also opposed anti-Semitism, published in support of the Jewish people, and were strongly criticized for such advocacy to the extent that they were accused of being Jewish. In Eliot's 1874 novel Daniel Deronda, the English gentry was depicted as philistine, materialist and corrupt; while the Jewish community was shown as coherent, moral and spiritual. The strong Jewish element in the book led to the belief that Eliot had a Jewish ancestry. Sacher-Masoch's 1878 Jewish Tales made him popular in Jewish communities who arranged for him to lecture in Budapest, where both Jews and non-Jews assumed that he must have Jewish blood to write so knowledgeably about Jewish life; this mistaken belief is said to be found in Ukraine even today.