Anti-Semitic Representation In The Finkler Question By Howard Jacobson: An Analysis

Anti-Semitic Representation in the Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson: An Analysis

Abstract: Every individual wants to live a contented and peaceful life. The constitution in fact allows individuals to have all the prerequisites. However, Jews were often deprived of such free space. The world history depicts Jews as swindler. They are considered as the Dhimi members of the society. They are always sidelined and ignored in gentile society. Julian Treslove one of the central characters of The Finkler Question tried to assimilate in the Jewish society but faced anti-Semitic hostility. The study is an attempt to understand the problems of British Jews. This study will try to explore hostility against Jews. It will try to explore issues related

That is because he is capable to sort the anti-Semitic wheat from the anti-Israel chaff. He prefers to wage the combat against ‘anti-Zionism’. Therefore, he has turned into England’s anti-Zionism code-reader-in-chief.

In a special series of NPR books Jacobson considered as ‘An Unexpected Jewish Writer’. It is described that he was not raised in a particularly observant Jewish home. He barely stepped into a synagogue as a child, and as a writer his intention was to never write about the Anglo-Jewish experience. When he started writing about Jews, he says, ‘it astonished his family and friends — and he certainly surprised himself’.

In the article “The Relationship Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionist” Henri Stellamn depicts that there is no difference between ‘Zionists’ and ‘Jews’. It asserts “An attack on the Zionists is an attack on the Jews”. To quote "It is our firm belief that there is no difference at all between the Jews and the Zionists. All the Jews are Zionists and all the Zionists are Jews and whoever thinks differently does not think logically. We consider World Judaism as our adversary and our enemy, as well as imperial ism and all the pro-Jewish powers that are advocating the recognition of this State that weighs heavily in the hearts of Arabs in

Jacobson was born on 25 August 1942 in Manchester in Lancashire. He was brought up in Prestwich. Jacobson is a British writer and a journalist. He is well-known for writing comic novels. In Telegraph it is mentioned “Spot him across a room and you would not guess that he is our funniest living writer”. The works of Jacobson's revolve around the plight of British Jewish characters. He is a Man Booker Prize winner for the book Finkler Question. He was educated at Stand Grammar School in Whitefield before going on to study English at Downing College. Howard Jacobson studied at Cambridge University. Jacobson married three times. He got engaged when he was a student at Cambridge. After graduation, he married his first wife Barbara in 1964. They have a son named Conrad Jacobson. In late 1964 Jacobson and Barbara shifted to Australia. Barbara and Jacobson were separated when he was in Australia. He married his second wife, Rosalin Sadler, in 1978 and got separated in 1995. In 2005, Jacobson was married to a radio and TV documentary maker Jenny De