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Please suggest themes you'd like to see covered here! Cut and paste the following into a comment:

ETA: please put your theme in the subject of your comment!

Theme:
Are you prepared to run it? Yes/No
Suggested books, if you have them already:


What does it mean to run the theme?

1. At least one month in advance, you'll let everyone know about the theme and your suggested reading for it. You need to suggest at least 3 works of fiction.
2. On the first of the month, you will post a welcome/introduction/kickoff for the theme.
3. Throughout the month, you'll take an active part in discussion of the theme.

You do not have to be an expert on the theme to run it. You just need to have an interest in it.

Judaism and Antisemitism in the UK (after 1800)

Date: 2009-06-01 08:46 pm (UTC)
naraht: Moonrise over Earth (other-David)
From: [personal profile] naraht
I am possibly prepared to run it, depending on timeframe. It would have to be moderated carefully, for obvious reasons.

"Daniel Deronda" by George Eliot
"The Way We Live Now" by Anthony Trollope
"Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens
"Oliver!" [musical by Lionel Bart]
"Fagin the Jew" by Will Eisner
"The House of Rothschild" [1934 film]
"Small Change" trilogy by Jo Walton

Background reading: probably lots and lots, which I can specify at a later date. Maybe it would be worth taking out "Small Change" and just doing a nineteenth century version?
al_zorra: (Default)
From: [personal profile] al_zorra
You can find a great deal of the embedded anti-semitism in England between the wars in authors like Evelyn Waugh and Orwell, for instance.

Love, C.
naraht: Moonrise over Earth (Default)
From: [personal profile] naraht
Definitely. But is the Jewish experience actually an important theme in any of them, or is it just casual prejudice as a background element?
al_zorra: (Default)
From: [personal profile] al_zorra
That's a good question. I'm pretty sure not, unlike Daniel Deroonda, for instance, which Eliot wrote in hopes of doing for the Jews in England what Stowe had done for slaves in the U.S.

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