Aug

10 2025

CSP: Dracula: Antisemitism and British Gothic Literature

10:00AM - 11:00AM  

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Contact Arie Katz
(949)682-4040
[email protected]
https://occsp.net/

$ Cost $ 0.00

Join us for a fascinating one-hour online conversation facilitated by Aaron Henne, Artistic Director of theatre dybbuk, with scholar and author Dr. Carol Margaret Davison, exploring some of the history and insights which are brought to life in her book, Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature. In that work, Davison interprets the changing significance of the trans-national Wandering Jew in classic Gothic fiction who later migrates into Victorian realism, and reveals how the spectres of Jewish difference and Jewish assimilation haunt British literature. The discussion will especially focus on Bram Stoker's Dracula, exploring the ways in which the societal concerns present at the time of its publication intersect with the prejudices and beliefs that are embedded in the text. This event will be in dialogue with the upcoming world premiere of theatre dybbuk's Dracula (Annotated), in which the company uses a unique blend of scholarly investigation and heightened theatricality to weave together the plot and characters of Dracula with references to Victorian England and Jewish history.

Sponsor: Orange County Jewish Community Scholar Program