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An Irish-Jewish Politician, Joyce's Dublin, and Ulysses
A forgotten historical figure and his influence on the
writing of James Joyce
In this book, Neil Davison argues that Albert Altman (1853 ‒
1903), a Dublin-based businessman and Irish nationalist, influenced
James Joyce's creation of the character of Leopold Bloom, as well
as Ulysses 's broader themes surrounding race, nationalism,
and empire. Using extensive archival research, Davison reveals
parallels between the lives of Altman and Bloom, including how the
experience of double marginalization-which Altman felt as both a
Jew in Ireland and an Irishman in the British Empire-is a major
idea explored in Joyce's work.
Altman, a successful salt and coal merchant, was involved in
municipal politics over issues of Home Rule and labor, and
frequently appeared in the press over the two decades of Joyce's
youth. His prominence, Davison shows, made him a familiar name in
the Home Rule circles with which Joyce and his father most
identified. The book concludes by tracing the influence of Altman's
career on the Dubliners story \"Ivy Day in the Committee
Room,\" as well as throughout the whole of Ulysses . Through
Altman's biography, Davison recovers a forgotten life story that
illuminates Irish and Jewish identity and culture in Joyce's
Dublin.
A volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian
D. G. Knowles
eBook
“Ivy Day”: Dublin Municipal Politics and Joyce's Race-Society Colonial Irish Jew
By introducing Albert Altman, an Irish-Jewish politician of Joyce's era, as an absent center of the Dubliners' story “Ivy Day in the Committee Room,” I show how the text's representations of post-Parnell Irish nationalism become more historically accurate, localized, and nuanced. Altman's position as a left-leaning liberal Dublin Corporation Councilor is illustrative of the precarious position of “the Jew” in colonialized countries during the era when race and race-societies transformed outposts of late Empire. Leopold Bloom's future politics appear to draw on Joyce's memories of Altman, and “Ivy Day” is the earliest piece in which Altman's career influenced Joyce's interest in labor as a promising route toward colonial independence. This was also the moment Joyce first recognized what Hannah Arendt would later examine as the Jewish third racial-space between colonized and colonizer, which she argued eventually became a germ of totalitarianism when racialized imperial politics “boomeranged” back to the Continent.
Journal Article
SCHWARZ-BART, LEVINAS, AND POST-SHOAH–POSTCOLONIAL GENDERED ETHICS
This article examines the influence of Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy on the ethical aspects of the life and work of André Schwarz-Bart. The essay is framed through recent re-interest in Schwarz-Bart’s collaborative works with his wife, Simone, as a bridge between Holocaust and postcolonial studies. The publications, arguments, and key points of intersubjective ethics in Levinas’s work that Schwarz-Bart encountered are carefully examined. The argument confronts the critical reception of Levinas’s concepts of the feminine and dwelling to demonstrate how, when seen through a Judaic lens, these notions form a new gendered reading of Schwarz-Bart’s The Last of the Just .
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An Irish-Jewish Politician, Joyce’s Dublin, and <i>Ulysses</i>
A forgotten historical figure and his
influence on the writing of James Joyce
In
this book, Neil Davison argues that Albert Altman (1853 ‒ 1903), a
Dublin-based businessman and Irish nationalist, influenced James Joyce’s
creation of the character of Leopold Bloom, as well as Ulysses ’s broader themes surrounding race, nationalism, and empire.
Using extensive archival research, Davison reveals parallels between the lives
of Altman and Bloom, including how the experience of double
marginalization—which Altman felt as both a Jew in Ireland and an Irishman in
the British Empire—is a major idea explored in Joyce’s work.
Altman,
a successful salt and coal merchant, was involved in municipal politics over
issues of Home Rule and labor, and frequently appeared in the press over the
two decades of Joyce’s youth. His prominence, Davison shows, made him a
familiar name in the Home Rule circles with which Joyce and his father most
identified. The book concludes by tracing the influence of Altman’s career on
the Dubliners story “Ivy Day in the
Committee Room,” as well as throughout the whole of Ulysses . Through Altman’s biography, Davison recovers a
forgotten life story that illuminates Irish and Jewish identity and culture in
Joyce’s Dublin.
A
volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles
eBook
“Jewman” Triumphant
Records indicate that Albert Altman began renting a three-story townhouse at 108 Pembroke Road in the tony township of Pembroke in 1900. The coincidence of this move with the IPP’s reunification is curious on several levels. As noted above, even if the new party relied on a détente between anti-Parnellites and Parnellites, the leadership remained squarely with the latter group. Thus, going forward, the UIL (and the Corporation as well) would be dominated by Liberal, petit bourgeois nationalists rather than the multipronged group of radicals consolidated under the INF. Part of Albert’s distinctiveness as a nationalist politician, it should be
Book Chapter
Altman in Joyce’s Work, from Dubliners to Ulysses
Although Ulysses continuously engages with Irish history and can be read as conducting its own historiography of anti-colonialism, it is not in the end a book of history but the fictive work of a creative genius. As such, Altman’s presence in both “Ivy Day” and Ulysses is not merely a historical reference but rather becomes a fulcrum through which Joyce levers out questions about Irish nationalism, race, marginality, and the subject position of Jews in empire. Altman’s shadow is thus vital to the author’s themes rather than simply remaining a few flat references to the historical record of a politician’s
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