Baker, William. Introduction to George Eliot and Judaism, pp. 1-10. Salzburg, Austria: Institut fur Englische Sprache und Literatur, Universität Salzburg, 1975.

Discusses the critical response to the Jewish content of Daniel Deronda.

Braude, Benjamin. "The Heine-Disraeli Syndrome among the Palgraves of Victorian England." In Jewish Apostasy in the Modern World, edited by Todd M. Endelman, pp. 108-41. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1987.

Compares the "well-known obsessions with their Jewish pasts" of Benjamin Disraeli and Heinrich Heine with similar "obsessions" of lesser known converts, such as the Palgraves, a prominent Victorian family, headed by Francis Ephraim Cohen.

Cohen, Derek, and Deborah Heller, eds. Jewish Presences in English Literature. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990, 143 p.

Traces the depiction of Jews throughout English literature, including chapters on the works of Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and George Eliot.

Cowen, Anne, and Roger Cowen. Victorian Jews through British Eyes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986, 196 p.

Discusses the perceptions prevalent among Victorians regarding Jews and the historical basis for such perceptions.

Endelman, Todd M. "Native Jews in the Victorian Age." In Radical Assimilation in English Jewish History, 1656-1945, pp. 73-113. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.

Explores the historical and economic developments in the nineteenth-century that affected English Jews and the perceptions about Jews. Analyzes the impact of such developments and perceptions on nineteenth-century literature.

Gallagher, Catherine. "George Eliot and Daniel Deronda: The Prostitute and the Jewish Question." In Sex, Politics, and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Novel, edited by Ruth Bernard Yeazell, pp. 39-62. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.

Discusses the "specific historical associations confronting professional women writers in the nineteenth century, when the metaphor of the author as a whore was commonplace," and uses this discussion as a basis for understanding Eliot's last novel. Links the prostitute and the stereotypical Jewish usurer as representatives of those "divorced from production" in England's developing market economy and argues that this sense of alienation is reflected in the literature of the time.

Henriques, U. R. Q. "The Jewish Emancipation Controversy in Nineteenth-Century Britain." Past and Present 40 (July 1968): 126-46.

Studies the history of the thirty-year struggle of Jews for political equality in England.

Jenkyns, Richard. "Change and Decay." In The Victorians and Ancient Greece, pp. 264-97. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980.

A portion of this chapter addresses Matthew Arnold's views of Hellenism and Hebraism as he expressed them in Culture and Anarchy. Jenkyns examines the various "historical and symbolic" meanings and implications of the terms "Hellenism" and "Hebraism."

Johnson, Edgar. "Dickens, Fagin, and Mr. Riah: The Intention of the Novelist." Commentary IX (January-June 1950): 47-50.

Defends Dickens against charges of anti-Semitism, accusations of which stem from his portrayal of Fagin in Oliver Twist.

Kaufmann, David. George Eliot and Judaism: An Attempt to Appreciate "Daniel Deronda. " Translated by J. W. Ferrier. 2nd ed. New York: Haskell House Publishers, 1888, 95 p. Reprint, 1970.

Argues that Daniel Deronda "is a Jewish book not only in the sense of its treatment of Jews, but also in the sense that it is pre-eminently fitted for being understood and appreciated by Jews…."

Knoepflmacher, U. C. "Daniel Deronda: Tradition as Synthesis and Salvation." In Religious Humanism and the Victorian Novel: George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Samuel Butler, pp. 116-48. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1965.

Provides a detailed study of the novel, including a section contrasting the relative "purposelessness" of the English nation with the Zionism of the novel's Jewish characters.

Landa, M. J. The Jew in Drama. London: P. S. King & Son, 1926, 340 p.

Traces the history of the appearance of Jewish characters in dramatic works, from a tradition of ancient Greek anti-Semitism through the Victorian period and beyond.

Lane, Lauriat, Jr. "Dickens: Archetypal Jew." PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America LXXIII, No. 1 (March 1958): 94-100.

Examines the stereotypical aspects of two of Dickens's Jewish characters (Fagin in Oliver Twist, and Riah in Our Mutual Friend).

Leavis, F. R. "George Eliot's Zionist Novel." Commentary 30, No. 4 (October 1960): 317-25.

Reverses his earlier suggestion that the Jewish portion of Daniel Deronda be excised from the novel, leaving only the English portion to be published as Gwendolen Harleth.

Naman, Anne Aresty. The Jew in the Victorian Novel: Some Relationships between Prejudice and Art. New York: AMS Press, 1980, 238 p.

Contains chapters discussing the prejudice regarding Jews represented in the writings of Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and George Eliot.

Ragussis, Michael. Figures of Conversion: "The Jewish Question" and English National Identity. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995, 340 p.

Studies the history of English views regarding tolerance and conversion of English Jews, and the role of the novel in "the public controversy over the missions to the Jews." Argues that "a particular tradition of the novel attempted to secularize this notion of tolerance toward the Jews" by "reinvent[ing] the representation of Jewish identity…."

Shaffer, E. S. "Daniel Deronda and the Conventions of Fiction." In "Kubla Khan" and "The Fall of Jerusalem": The Mythological School in Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature, 1770-1880, pp. 225-91. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975.

Gives a detailed examination of George Eliot's novel, including an analysis of the novel's comparison of English identity and Jewish identity.

Stone, Harry. "Dickens and the Jews." Victorian Studies 11, No. 3 (March 1959): 223-53.

Studies the apparent change in Dickens's attitude toward Jews as exemplified by the characters Fagin (Oliver Twist) and Riah (Our Mutual Friend).

Tyrwhitt, R. St. John. "The Greek Spirit in Modern Literature." The Contemporary Review XXIX (18 March 1877): 552-66.

Reviews the nineteenth-century debate regarding Hellenism and Hebraism, as discussed by Matthew Arnold and John Addington Symonds.

Vreté, Mayir. "The Restoration of the Jews in English Protestant Thought, 1790-1840." Middle Eastern Studies 8, No. 1 (January 1972): 3-50.

Discusses the development of the "Jewish question" in England in Protestant writings, identifying this issue as concern regarding "the conversion of the Jews and their restoration to the land of their forefathers."

Werses, Shmuel. "The Jewish Reception of Daniel Deronda." In Daniel Deronda: A Centenary Symposium, edited by Alice Shalvi, pp. 11-43. Jerusalem: Jerusalem Academic Press, 1976.

Surveys the critical and popular Jewish reaction to Eliot's novel at the time of the novel's publication.

West, Shearer. "The Construction of Racial Type: Caricature, Ethnography, and Jewish Physiognomy in Fin-de-Siècle Melodrama." Nineteenth-Century Theatre 21, No. 1 (Summer 1993): 5-40.

Examines the movement of Jewish characters in melodrama from stock characters to more prominent roles, and links this development with the rise in immigration of Eastern European Jews to Britain in the 1890s.

Zatlin, Linda Gertner. The Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Jewish Novel. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1981, 157 p.

Discusses the influence of politics, religion, and history on the development of the Anglo-Jewish novel.