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The Marriage Plot: Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C)
The Marriage Plot Or How Jews Fell in Love with Love and with Literature - Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C
Author: Naomi Seidman
For nineteenth-century Eastern European Jews, modernization entailed the abandonment of arranged marriage in favor of the "love match." Romantic novels taught Jewish readers the rules of romance and the choreography of courtship. But because these new conceptions of romance were rooted in the Christian and chivalric traditions, the Jewish embrac...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780804799676
ISBN-10: 0804799679
Publication Date: 7/6/2016
Pages: 368
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Stanford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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