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According to Gertrude Himmelfarb, in her book The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot (2009), it was after moving to the town of Coventry that Eliot met Charles Bray, who had recently published Philosophy of Necessity, which made the positivist case for agnosticism. Through the Bray family, Eliot was introduced to a circle of intellectuals and free ...
1. Mai 2009 · The book is well organized in six parts that cover: (1) the debates over the "Jewish question" in France, Germany and the UK--the big question being whether Jews could be citizens of countries, especially ones like England that were based on an official state religion, (2) George Eliot's initiation into this question, including ...
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12. Feb. 2010 · The tale of George Eliot’s Jewish “odyssey” has been told before, and for the very good reason that it is an astonishing one.
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29. Mai 2012 · In this groundbreaking study of George Eliot, Gertrude Himmelfarb offers a fascinating and deeply persuasive understanding of Eliot’s extraordinary sympathy for Jewish identity, Jewish religion, and ultimately, Jewish nationalism. A work of rare originality and insight. Simply brilliant.”
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Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot- Judaism and the Human Future: A Victorian Vision Suzanne Smith Cambridge, Massachusetts In reflecting upon the fact that religious language survives long after the practices and the devotion that gave rise to it have departed, Alasdair Maclntyre once observed
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If the creation of Israel may be justified only on the basis of the Holocaust, and existing accounts of the Holocaust are of questionable accuracy, or altogether mythic, then the legitimacy of Israel itself is cast into doubt. 15. Himmelfarb, The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot, 149–50. 16. Ibid., 152.
