The marriage plot : or, how Jews fell in love with love, and with literature /

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 new conceptions of romance were rooted in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seidman, Naomi (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
Series:Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1242645