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Record W2500785532 · doi:10.1057/9780230006034_1

Introduction: The Nation and the Spectral Wandering Jew

2004· book-chapter· en· W2500785532 on OpenAlexaff
Carol Margaret Davison

Bibliographic record

VenuePalgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2004
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicJewish and Middle Eastern Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Windsor
Fundersnot available
KeywordsUncannyJudaismLiteratureEnlightenmentArtPhilosophyZionismTrope (literature)Religious studiesHistoryArt historyTheology

Abstract

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Leo Pinsker’s famous 1882 essay promoting Zionism entitled ‘Auto-Emancipation’ identifies the key elements of the present study — national identity and belonging, the principal trope of the undying and uncanny Wandering Jew spectre who haunts European nations, and the Jewish Question, which Michael Ragussis rightly characterizes as plural and incorporating ‘a variety of Jewish questions (religious, legal, racial, and so on)’ (‘Secret’: 298). With the Enlightenment era genre of British Gothic fiction as its principal domain of focus, this study engages with the related questions of why, in what ways, and with what implications, the legendary Wandering Jew, Ahasuerus, haunts modern Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This infamous, transgressive antichrist, associated with what Edgar Rosenberg has called ‘the Ur-crime of the Crucifixion’ (27), was cursed to immortality until the Millennium for mocking Christ as he carried the cross to Calvary. 1 In that instance, he figuratively assumed the cross as an ambivalent representative of ‘a deicide nation … on whose redemption the fate of mankind’ was said to hang (Fisch: 15). 2 He has since been repeatedly crucified for his Original Sin (Horkheimer and Adorno: 49–50). These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.037

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.006
Scholarly communication0.0040.002
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.024
GPT teacher head0.241
Teacher spread0.217 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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