Leopold Bloom – Joyce’s Jew

Marlene R, Edelstein, Copenhagen / Denmark

Language: English

Session:
In Ulysses Joyce creates a character who is modern in being undecidable - he's been baptised, so is he a Jew or not? He's a wanderer of immigrant stock, so what is his national identity? How does he correspond to the stereotypes of Jewishness which were current in early 20th-century Europe, and how does he deal with the pervasive antisemitism of his time? And what was Joyce's own knowledge of Jews and Judaism?

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Bio:
I've lived in Denmark most of my adult life, teaching English literature at Copenhagen University.

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