Ep. 71 - Agendath Netaim
Leopold Bloom contemplates the purchase of immense melonfields north of Jaffa.
Citrons
Topics covered in this episode include the Zionist movement of the early 20th century, how to pronounce Agendath Netaim, why Joyce might have changed Agudat to Agendath, hypostasis, the business sense (or nonsense) of buying farmland in Palestine, Bleibtreustrasse 34, morphic resonance, Dlugacz the porkbutcher as Hermes, whether or not Bloom is a Zionist, Citron, Mastiansky, and St. Kevin’s Parade, why Bloom’s rejection of Zion makes him more like Odysseus, James Joyce’s thoughts on Zionism, and toxic nostalgia.
from James Joyce Quarterly
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Further Reading:
Bell, M. (1975). The Search for Agendath Netaim: Some Progress, but No Solution. James Joyce Quarterly,12(3), 251-258. Retrieved February 28, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/25487184
Bulhof, F. (1970). Agendath Again. James Joyce Quarterly,7(4), 326-332. Retrieved March 4, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/25486859
Byrnes, R. (1992). Agendath Netaim Discovered: Why Bloom Isn't a Zionist. James Joyce Quarterly,29(4), 833-838. Retrieved February 11, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/25485325
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
McNally, F. (2020, Feb 28). How Joyce paid the ferryman. The Irish Times. Retrieved from https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/how-joyce-paid-the-ferryman-1.4187092
Parish, C. (1969). Agenbite of Agendath Netaim. James Joyce Quarterly,6(3), 237-241. Retrieved February 22, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/25486772
Philologos. (2018, Jun 27). The real zionist planters' society in James Joyce's "Ulysses." Mosaic. Retrieved from https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/israel-zionism/2018/06/the-real-zionist-planters-society-in-james-joyces-ulysses/
Shafir, G. (1996). Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914. Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/texbal9
Wicht, W. (2003). "Bleibtreustrasse 34, Berlin, W. 15." (U 4.199), Once Again. James Joyce Quarterly,40(4), 797-810. Retrieved March 14, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/25477995
Williams, E. (1986). Agendath Netaim: Promised land or waste land. Modern Fiction Studies,32(2), 228-235. Retrieved February 22, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/26281745