Dear Brian
I think that in that case "a Chicago Jew" is a sort of exhaustive characterization of a person (cf. 'From Sea To Sea" ch.6 Shows how One Chicago Jew and an American Child can poison the Purest Mind).
Yan
B> This follows my posting on !9 March. Thanks to Howard Mather re
B> Founders' shares. But I have no advice yet about the Jewish character.
B> There were numerous Jews in Chicago by 1889, but the book "The Jews
B> of Chicago" by Irving Cutler (1996) does not mention any.Geissler -
B> or similar name (tho many German Jews were there).
B> Geissler is not a common name.
B> Clara Geissler was the originator of the vampire myth according
B> to Nochlin & Garb "The Jew in the Text" (1995), p184 from Anthony
B> Masters: "The Natural History of the Vampire" (1972) : " The torture
B> in 1597 of Clara Geissler of Gelnhausen illustrates the aim of
B> torture." - this seems scarcely relevant to Kipling's Geissler character.
B> Kipling had published " The Jews in Shushan" in 1887, a
B> sympathetic story of an Indian Jewish family killed by epidemic;
B> & in "His Chance in Life" in 1888 there was Michele d'Cruze" The
B> Cochin Jew", 1/8 Jewish, who quells a riot. Neither story suggests
B> RK was then antisemitic. So why the unpleasant Jew in the 1889 story?
B> I will post my query on a Jewish site.
B> Bryan Diamond
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