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The Jew in noble isolation

Posted by luno in Stein, anti-Semitism, Weininger (Sunday May 10, 2009 at 12:51 pm)
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Gertrude Stein wrote the twenty-five-page manuscript, “The Modern Jew Who Has Given Up the Faith of His Fathers Can Reasonably and Consistently Believe in Isolation,” while a student at Radcliffe in 1896. “The essay is distinctly occasional and reads like an early work. It is, nonetheless, one of the few known pieces in which Stein […]