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This sounds great! What a wonderful idea! I love both Ulysses and Jewish ideas so this is going to be really exciting!

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I've tried to read Ulysses many times. Could be I'm shallow-brained, but I find the style so dense as to exclude me. Still, I'm intrigued by a future analysis of Jewish themes in the work. Before you begin publishing, may I ask what interest James Joyce had in Jews, or Jew-hatred? If that's known.

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There is an incredible online resource: The Joyce Project. http://m.joyceproject.com/chapters/telem.html

It has hyperlinks explaining difficult passages.

All of the quotes in my articles are from there.

Here is a quote from my first article: "Tell me some secrets about Irishmen. You know your brother has been asking me so many questions about Jews that I want to get even with him."

Joyce also said that Ulysses was "an epic of two races (Israel-Ireland)"

I think Joyce had an overriding interest in antisemitism. I think it is a major theme of Ulysses and I hope to be able to demonstrate that.

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Thank you. I'll look up the Joyce Project.

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I am embarrassed to admit that I haven't read Ulysses. I ordered it from the library and it is now ready for collection. I was half thinking of declining to collect it, but your article has intrigued me, so I shall have to gird my loins and start reading

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The Joyce Project has renewed my interest. http://m.joyceproject.com/chapters/telem.html

When I was studying the book hyperlinks were in the hyper future. It was one "Complete Guide to" after another. Ulysses rewards its readers with a full world, imagined, in addition to a literary education. I envy you that the reading of it is before you, though not too much, as I am now reading for the first time The Brothers Karamazov. :)

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