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The Character and Education of Daniel Deronda

Brought up as an English gentleman with the paths of scholarship and government open before him, by the end of the novel Daniel Deronda chooses to embrace Judaism and to dedicate himself to Jewish national renewal.

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Dr. Ruth Wisse
Dr. Ruth R. Wisse is professor emerita of Yiddish and comparative literatures at Harvard and a distinguished senior fellow at Tikvah. Her memoir Free as a Jew: a Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation, chapters of which appeared in Mosaic in somewhat different form, is out from Wicked Son…

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The Character and Education of Daniel Deronda

Taught By

Dr. Ruth Wisse

1 of 8 The Theme of Beauty and Goodness

2 of 8 The Character and Education of Gwendolen Harleth

3 of 8 “Alien Invaders”: Jewish Figures in Deronda’s Britain

4 of 8 The Theme of Evil

5 of 8 The Character and Education of Daniel Deronda

6 of 8 Jewish Nationalism

7 of 8 How Fiction Differs from Philosophy

8 of 8 The Political Vision of Daniel Deronda: Separateness with Communication

1 of 8 The Theme of Beauty and Goodness

2 of 8 The Character and Education of Gwendolen Harleth

3 of 8 “Alien Invaders”: Jewish Figures in Deronda’s Britain

4 of 8 The Theme of Evil

5 of 8 The Character and Education of Daniel Deronda

6 of 8 Jewish Nationalism

7 of 8 How Fiction Differs from Philosophy

8 of 8 The Political Vision of Daniel Deronda: Separateness with Communication

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