Modernism saw the liquidation of the individual, but through the character of Leopold Bloom, Joyce tries to raise anew the question of individuality. Joyce calls out the hypocrisy of the so-called ‗faith‘ that had turned more demonstrative than personal. Try as one may, Bloom does not fit into any categories, nonetheless, he faces persecution, the focus of vicious anti-Semitism over the course of the day. A single day depicting Dublin's anti-Semitism plays against the larger backdrop of the anti-Semitism that was sweeping Europe in the beginning of the twentieth century. Bloom does not represent a one-dimensional orthodox or even the assimilated Jewishness. The nature of his identity is complex. It reveals the distinctions between Jewishness and non-Jewishness as constructs based on imagination and perception rather than on fixed criteria. Joyce, thereby, plays with and counters common stereotypes about Jewishness. A bird‘s eye view of the novel, I believe, reveals that Joyce is less concerned with how Jews as a community survive, through jibes and physical attacks, than how individual men survive. All of this is made vivid through the interior monologue, a variant of stream of consciousness. Exploiting this technique, through his oeuvre, Joyce reinstates the individual—free of all identities.