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The Marriage Plot: Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature by Naomi Seidman

The Marriage Plot: Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature

Naomi Seidman

368 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

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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...

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