The Marriage Plot: Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature by Naomi Seidman

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

The Marriage Plot: Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature

Naomi Seidman

368 pages digital 2016

3 editions

nonfiction history reflective medium-paced
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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...

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