The Irish-Jewish Ulysses | Professor Neil Davison

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13th June 2013

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7:30 pm

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Neil Davison, Associate Professor of English at Oregon State University and author of James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Construction of Jewish Identity: Culture, Biography, and “the Jew” in Modernist Europe, will speak on “The Irish-Jewish Ulysses” in celebration of Bloomsday 2013 at the Irish Jewish Museum.

Book Cover - James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Construction of Jewish Identity by Neil R. Davison — James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Construction of Jewish Identity by Neil R. Davison

Professor Davison will examine the biographical, historical, religious, and political backgrounds surrounding how and why Joyce came to create such a robust and important Jewish character as Bloom.