The Marriage Plot: Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature by Naomi Seidman non-media Sophie's story is both quintessentially

Sophie's story is both quintessentially American and uniquely her own

and proverbs -- an attractive sampling of the accumulated wisdom of the past

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The Marriage Plot: Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature by Naomi Seidman non-media Sophie's story is both quintessentiallyFor nineteenth century Eastern European Jews, modernization entailed the abandonment of arranged marriage in favor of the "love match." Romantic novels taught Jewish readers the rules of romance and the choreography of courtship. But because these new conceptions of romance were rooted in the Christian and chivalric traditions, the Jewish embrace of "the love religion" was always partial. In The Marriage Plot, Naomi Seidman considers the evolution of