The Marriage Plot: Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature by Naomi Seidman non-media attachment to the traditions of

attachment to the traditions of the Jewish workers' Bund

and proverbs -- an attractive sampling of the accumulated wisdom of the past

Lachs examines how ideas from Jewish texts and practice were used and manipulated by the socialist poets to advance ideas about class

This lost culture resonates throughout this mesmerizing and heartbreaking book

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The Marriage Plot: Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature by Naomi Seidman non-media attachment to the traditions ofFor 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. In The Marriage Plot, Naomi Seidman considers the evolution of