Efraim Sicher is a professor of English and comparative literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Sicher makes the interesting choice of focusing on two related literary tropes: the “Jew” and the “Jew’s Daughter.” In this relationship as it is depicted in poetry, song, drama, art, architecture, and literature, Sicher presents a compelling argument for “how the narrative of the Jew and his daughter informs discourses about gender, sexuality, race, and nationhood in European societies from the eleventh to the twenty-first centuries” (2). He does this through a comparative, interdisciplinary analysis of various texts. This analysis is also informed by historical anecdotes.... Sicher’s text is an impressive presentation of research from many times and places that serves to support and illustrate his thesis well.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1.Genesis: Eve and Anti-Eve2.The Books of Esther: The Jewesses of Toledo3.Daughteronomy: Conversion and Exchange in Early Modern England4.Exodus: The Jew’s Daughter in Germany (with Noa Sophie Kohler)5.Second Daughteronomy: Romance and Conversion in Nineteenth-Century England6.A Song of Songs: The Orientalization of the Belle JuiveEpilogue In the Name of the Daughter: The Belle Juive Strikes BackBibliographyIndex

Efraim Sicher is a professor of English and comparative literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Sicher makes the interesting choice of focusing on two related literary tropes: the “Jew” and the “Jew’s Daughter.” In this relationship as it is depicted in poetry, song, drama, art, architecture, and literature, Sicher presents a compelling argument for “how the narrative of the Jew and his daughter informs discourses about gender, sexuality, race, and nationhood in European societies from the eleventh to the twenty-first centuries” (2). He does this through a comparative, interdisciplinary analysis of various texts. This analysis is also informed by historical anecdotes.... Sicher’s text is an impressive presentation of research from many times and places that serves to support and illustrate his thesis well.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1.Genesis: Eve and Anti-Eve2.The Books of Esther: The Jewesses of Toledo3.Daughteronomy: Conversion and Exchange in Early Modern England4.Exodus: The Jew’s Daughter in Germany (with Noa Sophie Kohler)5.Second Daughteronomy: Romance and Conversion in Nineteenth-Century England6.A Song of Songs: The Orientalization of the Belle JuiveEpilogue In the Name of the Daughter: The Belle Juive Strikes BackBibliographyIndex