{"product_id":"the-marriage-plot-or-how-jews-fell-in-love-with-love-and-with-literature-9780804799676","title":"The Marriage Plot: Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor 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 the Christian and chivalric traditions, the Jewish embrace of \"the love religion\" was always partial. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage Plot\u003c\/i\u003e, Naomi Seidman considers the evolution of Jewish love and marriage though the literature that provided Jews with a sentimental education, highlighting a persistent ambivalence in the Jewish adoption of European romantic ideologies. Nineteenth-century Hebrew and Yiddish literature tempered romantic love with the claims of family and community, and treated the rules of gender complementarity as comedic fodder. Twentieth-century Jewish writers turned back to tradition, finding pleasures in matchmaking, intergenerational ties, and sexual segregation. In the modern Jewish voices of Sigmund Freud, Erica Jong, Philip Roth, and Tony Kushner, the Jewish heretical challenge to the European romantic sublime has become the central sexual ideology of our time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Naomi Seidman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/22\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.1lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804799676","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463906214025,"sku":"9780804799676","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_ccfcc963-5bfa-4f9d-b04e-26c590fd9bf6.jpg?v=1784059785","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-marriage-plot-or-how-jews-fell-in-love-with-love-and-with-literature-9780804799676","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}