Enlightenment and ghetto: Michael Gold's dual vision
When Michael Gold wrote his celebrated Jews Without Money (1930) he was almost certainly responding to the increasingly popular anti-Semitic belief that the Jews were controlling the purse strings in America and elsewhere. The familiar stereotypes of Jewish bankers and Wall Street stock swindlers we...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Donner Institute
1995
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Nordisk judaistik
Year: 1995, Volume: 16, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 115-126 |
| Further subjects: | B
Jewish literature
B Antisemitism in literature B Communism and Judaism B Authors, American B American literature; Jewish authors B Social Conflict B Fiction B Socialism, Jewish |
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| Summary: | When Michael Gold wrote his celebrated Jews Without Money (1930) he was almost certainly responding to the increasingly popular anti-Semitic belief that the Jews were controlling the purse strings in America and elsewhere. The familiar stereotypes of Jewish bankers and Wall Street stock swindlers were particularly fashionable during this period, and while Gold’s principal animus for writing the book may not have been primarily to combat anti-Semitism, but to present his own struggle in the slums and his discovery of the class struggle and socialism, the significance of this theme for Gold´s novel cannot be denied. This becomes especially apparent in the introduction he wrote for his work in 1935. Here Gold emphasizes that, despite Nazi propaganda, the vast majority of Jews are living in poverty and belong to the proletariat. This does not however prevent him from succumbing himself to a variant of left-wing anti-Semitism. |
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| ISSN: | 2343-4929 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nordisk judaistik
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.30752/nj.69525 |