10 POLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ZERKOW»
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The Merchant of Modernism: The Economic Jew in Anglo-American ...
If we re-read Zerkow in the context of Populist anti-Semitism, McTeague's allegorical dimension takes on greater prominence, as Zerkow's mania for gold infects the other characters. McTeague insists on French gilt, as opposed to inferior ...
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American Naturalism and the Jews: Garland, Norris, Dreiser, Wharton, ...
Here is Zerkow as he is introduced in the novel: Zerkow was a Polish Jew—curiously enough his hair was fiery red. He was a dry, shrivelled old man of sixty odd. He had the thin, eager, cat-like lips of the covetous; eyes that had grown keen as ...
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To Have or Have Not: Essays on Commerce and Capital in Modernist Theatre
He insists that she repeat the story endlessly, and becomes determined to possess both her and her inheritance. He marries her and they have a sickly child who quickly dies. Zerkow becomes convinced that the valuable tableware is hidden ...
This service of plate had come to be Zerkow's mania. On this particular evening, about a week after the child's burial, in the wretched back room of the junk shop, Zerkow had made Maria sit down to the table opposite him–the whiskey bottle ...
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Imagining the Primitive in Naturalist and Modernist Literature - Strona 99
Zerkow's pursuit of the nonexistent gold not only underscores the text's theme of avarice, as Donald Pizer suggests, but also links this theme to a racial source for this problem. Norris frames Zerkow in anti-Semitic descriptions such as those ...
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From Gift to Commodity: Capitalism and Sacrifice in ... - Strona 224
Neither Zerkow nor Maria was much affected by either the birth or the death of this little child. Zerkow had welcomed it with pronounced disfavor, since it had a mouth to be fed and wants to be provided for. . . .The child was a mere incident in ...
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Novels and Essays - Strona 432
Maria must know where it was; by dint of questioning, Zerkow would surely get the information from her. Some day, if only he was persistent, he would hit upon the right combination of questions, the right suggestion that would disentangle ...
Frank Norris, Donald Pizer, 1986
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Den Holocaust beschreiben: auf dem Weg zu einer integrierten Geschichte
Die Kinder von Bjelaja Zerkow Oder: Was wußten die Deutschen? Rund sechs Wochen nach dem deutschen Überfall auf die Sowjetunion hatte sich der Mord an den Juden im besetzten Gebiet von der Tötung einzelner Menschen zur ...
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A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature - Strona 69
Though residents of the flat are simply amused by the story, the local dealer in junk, the Polish Jew, Zerkow, finds the story mesmerizing. He becomes her best audience, willing and eager to listen: "There were more than a hundred pieces, and ...
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Frank Norris revisited - Strona 48
The local junkman, the red-headed Jew Zerkow, enters the story as one whose hereditary acquisitiveness has already been exaggerated to monstrously monomaniacal proportions in his feverish obsession with gold. He is as irresistibly drawn ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ZERKOW»
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My Favorite Anti-Semite: Frank Norris and the Most Horrifying Jew in …
The crazy (i.e., Mexican) Maria pays regular calls to Zerkow's stinking cellar for two reasons: to sell him the stolen filings of gold she has lifted from the competent ... «Tablet Magazine, Oct 13»
