Ep. 115 - AND IT WAS THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER
Why is this Bloomsday different from all other Bloomsdays?
Topics in this episode include orthography, Dermot’s recollections of working in graphic design, the saving grace of calligraphy, spellingbee conundrums, dayfathers, nightfathers, Old Monks, unions, an obituary surprise, Passover and how it shows up in Ulysses, Rudolph Bloom’s Haggadah, how Charlton Heston traumatized us as children, seders, the oddity of a Catholic seder, embroideration, Bloom’s youthful atheism, the wisdom to be found in Bloom’s malapropisms, Bloom’s shocking lack of knowledge about Judaism, Chad Gadya, what Joyce knew about Passover, hypostasis, how Stephen Dedalus accidentally celebrates Passover, Ulysses as “an epic of two races,” and how Ulysses functions as an Irish Haggadah.
Support us on Patreon to access episodes early, bonus content, and a video version of our podcast.
On the Blog:
Marc Chagall, The Israelites are eating the Passover Lamb, 1931
AND IT WAS THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER
Blooms & Barnacles Social Media:
Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
Subscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube
Further Reading:
Beck, H., & Simpson, J. Monks, night fathers, and day fathers. James Joyce Online Notes. Retrieved from https://www.jjon.org/jioyce-s-people/monks
Bender, A. (2015). Israelites in Erin: Exodus, Revolution, and the Irish Revival. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/pp6uexh5
Davison, N. R. (1998). James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Construction of Jewish Identity: Culture, Biography and ‘the Jew’ in Modernist Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/rp9ctrt
Gifford, D., & Seidman, R. J. (1988). Ulysses annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses. Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/vy6j4tk
Fogel, D. M. (1979). Symbol and Context in Ulysses: Joyce’s “Bowl of Bitter Waters” and Passover. ELH, 46(4), 710–721. https://doi.org/10.2307/2872486
Reizbaum, M. (1999). James Joyce’s Judaic Other. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/y4sxxtlv
Schwarz, D. (2004). Reading Joyce’s Ulysses. Palgrave Macmillan.
Steinberg, E. (1981). James Joyce and the Critics Notwithstanding, Leopold Bloom Is Not Jewish. Journal of Modern Literature, 9(1), 27-49. Retrieved February 11, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/3831274
Steinberg, E. R. (1999). Reading the Vision of Rudy Reading. James Joyce Quarterly, 36(4), 954–962. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25474096