The Jew in the text : modernity and the construction of identity / edited and introduced by Linda Nochlin & Tamar Garb.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Starting with the self : Jewish identity and its representation / Linda Nochlin -- Modernity, identity, textuality / Tamar Garb -- Neither black nor white : the figure of "the Jew" in imperial British literature / Bryan Cheyette -- Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist : Fagin as a sign / Juliet Steyn -- Toulouse-Lautrec's illustrations for Victor Joze and Georges Clemenceau and their relationship to French anti-Semitism of the 1890's / Gale B. Murray -- John Singer Sargent's portraits of the Wertheimer family / Kathleen Adler -- Salome, syphilis, Sarah Bernhardt, and the modern Jewess / Sander L. Gilman -- When is a Jewish star just a star? : interpreting images of Sarah Bernhardt / Carol Ockman -- Marcel Proust : in search of identity / Julia Kristeva -- From fin de siècle to Vichy : the cultural hygienics of Camille (Faust) Mauclair / Romy Golan -- Vampires, viruses, and Lucien Rebatet : anti-Semitic art criticism during Vichy / Michèle C. Cone -- El Lissitzky's "interchange stations" : the letter and the spirit / Judith Glatzer Wechsler -- The Jew in Sartre's Réflexions sur la question juive : an exercise in historical reading / Susan Rubin Suleiman --"I ... AM.A" : addressing the Jewish question in Joyce's Ulysses / Steven Connor -- Assimilation, entertainment, and the Hollywood solution / Claire Pajaczkowska and Barry Curtis -- "A little child shall lead them" : the Jewish family romance / Marshall Berman -- Parvenu or palimpsest: some tracings of the Jew in modern France / Adrian Rifkin -- The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum : memory and the politics of identity / James E. Young.