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A Jew in the French Revolution : the life of Zalkind Hourwitz / Frances Malino.
Van Pelt Library DS135.F9 H685 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Malino, Frances.
- Series:
- Jewish society and culture
- Jewish communities of the modern world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hourwitz, Zalkind, 1752-1812.
- Hourwitz, Zalkind.
- Jews--France--Biography.
- Jews.
- France.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Jews.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 281 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1996.
- Summary:
- Zalkind Hourwitz lived during one of the most pivotal periods in history. A Polish Jew born in 1752, Hourwitz moved to France in 1774 and entered the intellectual and political life of ancien rigimeParis. Frances Malino provides a vivid description of this compelling and exotic figure who fits none of the traditional portraits of eighteenth-century Jews. An investigation of his experiences in the French capital during this period challenges our previous understanding of Jewish emancipation, provides an additional perspective on revolutionary Paris (from that of both Jew and foreigner) and adds another dimension to the historiography of the French Revolution.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-271) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1557861935
- OCLC:
- 33666138
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