George Eliot and Judaism

📖 The Scoop

The origins of this study rest in the spring of 1962 when the author picked up a paperback version of George Eliot's 'Daniel Deronda.' With breaks merely for going to the toilet, he devoured the work within twenty-four hours and for weeks after walked around as if the ground had been cut away from his feet. Such a reading aroused a Deronda type response in setting the reader to ask questions about his own dimly realized origins and nine years later he wandered in the footsteps of Mirah and Deronda to the East. In the meantime he had perhaps found some answers to one of the many questions raised by that traumatic reading: how did George Eliot know so much about Jews, where did she get her information from? -- author's introduction.

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