Mirah Lapidoth

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Mirah Lapidoth is a central, morally steadfast Jewish heroine in George Eliot’s novel "Daniel Deronda," whose search for family and identity intertwines with the book’s exploration of Jewish culture and nationalism.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Fictional character
Jewish heroine
Literary character
appearsIn Daniel Deronda
associatedWithTheme Exile and return
Family and kinship
Jewish culture
Jewish nationalism
Moral integrity
Religious identity
Zionism
centralConflict Quest for secure identity
Search for lost family
coCharacterWith Daniel Deronda
Gwendolen Harleth
Mordecai
creator George Eliot
culturalRoleInText Positive representation of Jewish womanhood
Vehicle for philo-Semitic discourse in the novel
ethnicity Jewish
fictionalUniverse Daniel Deronda
firstPublicationOfWork 1876
gender Female
languageOfWork English
literaryPeriod Victorian literature
literarySignificance Influential representation of Jewish identity in English fiction
Key figure in early English literary Zionism
medium Novel
moralCharacteristic Compassionate
Self-sacrificing
Steadfast
narrativeFunction Embodies Jewish cultural continuity
Represents moral steadfastness
Represents search for family and identity
nationalityInFiction Jewish
religion Judaism
roleInWork Central heroine
Moral center
settingOfWork Victorian era
surface form: Victorian England
symbolizes Zionism
surface form: Hope for Jewish national restoration

Spiritual resilience
workAuthor George Eliot
workGenre Bildungsroman
Novel
Philosophical novel
workTitle Daniel Deronda

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Daniel Deronda hasCharacter Mirah Lapidoth