''The Jew'' in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture : Between the East End and East Africa

The turbulent period from the Boer War to the introduction of the Aliens Act was marked by contradictory imaginings of 'the Jew' - pauper/capitalist, separatist/imposter, ideal colonizer/undesirable immigrant, familiar/alien. This new collection considers the wider colonial context in which these ambivalent attitudes to Jews were produced.

Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Note on Documentation Introduction: Between the East End and East Africa: Rethinking Images of ''the Jew'' in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture; E.Bar-Yosef & N.Valman Jews and Jewels: A Symbolic Economy on the South African Diamond Fields; A.Munich Little Jew Boys Made Good: Immigration, the South African War, and Anglo-Jewish Fiction; N.Valman Acting Like an Alien: ''Civil'' Antisemitism, the Rhetoricized Jew, and Early Twentieth-Century British Immigration Law; L.Trubowitz Commerce, State, and Anti-Alienism: Balancing Britain''s Interests in the Late-Victorian Period; N.Evans The Ghosts of Kishinev in the East End: Responses to a Pogrom in the Jewish London of 1903; B.Gidley Jews, Englishmen, and Folklorists: The Scholarship of Joseph Jacobs and Moses Gaster; S.Rabinovitch Imperial Zion: Israel Zangwill and the English Origins of Territorialism; D.Glover Zionism, Territorialism, Race, and Nation in the Thought and Politics of Israel Zangwill; M.Rochelson ''By Whom Shall She Arise? For She Is Small'': The Wales-Israel Tradition in the Edwardian Period; J.Donahaye Spying Out the Land: The Zionist Expedition to East Africa, 1905; E.Bar-Yosef Herzl, the Scramble, and a Meeting that Never Happened: Revisiting the Notion of an African Zion; M.Levene Bibliography Index