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Article: The Temple of Culture: Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America.(Book Review)
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- American Jewish History
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- September 1, 2002
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By Jonathan Freedman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 264 pp.
For readers mainly interested in American Jewish history, Jonathan Freedman's The Temple of Culture will be valuable for its analysis of Jews in academia's English departments and in the publishing industry in twentieth-century America. An impressive literary critic, Freedman also offers here theories of the way Jewish intellectuals responded to such concepts as Matthew Arnold's ideal of culture, creating for themselves, for example, the image of the alienated intellectual and marginalized artist. In the second half of the book, Freedman uses historical data to indicate the subtle and not ...