The burdens of brotherhood : Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France / Ethan B. Katz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katz, Ethan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--France--Social conditions--20th century.

Jews.

Jews--France--Social conditions--21st century.

Muslims--France--Social conditions--20th century.

Muslims.

Muslims--France--Social conditions--21st century.

Jews--Cultural assimilation--France.

Muslims--Cultural assimilation--France.

Social integration--France.

Social integration.

Muslims--Cultural assimilation.

Jews--Cultural assimilation.

Social conditions.

France.

France--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Jews--Social conditions.

Muslims--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

465 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2015.

Summary:

"Headlines from France suggest that Muslims have renewed an age-old struggle against Jews and that the two groups are once more inevitably at odds. But the past tells a different story. The Burdens of Brotherhood is a sweeping history of Jews and Muslims in France from World War I to the present. Here Ethan Katz introduces a richer and more complex world that offers fresh perspective for understanding the opportunities and challenges in France today. Focusing on the experiences of ordinary people, Katz shows how Jewish-Muslim relations were shaped by everyday encounters and by perceptions of deeply rooted collective similarities or differences. We meet Jews and Muslims advocating common and divergent political visions, enjoying common culinary and musical traditions, and interacting on more intimate terms as neighbors, friends, enemies, and even lovers and family members. Drawing upon dozens of archives, newspapers, and interviews, Katz tackles controversial subjects like Muslim collaboration and resistance during World War II and the Holocaust, Jewish participation in French colonialism, the international impact of the Israeli--Arab conflict, and contemporary Muslim antisemitism in France. We see how Jews and Muslims, as ethno-religious minorities, understood and related to one another through their respective relationships to the French state and society. Through their eyes, we see colonial France as a multiethnic, multireligious society more open to public displays of difference than its postcolonial successor. This book thus dramatically reconceives the meaning and history not only of Jewish-Muslim relations but ultimately of modern France itself."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

The Jewish-Muslim question in modern France

Jewish, Muslim, and possibly French

Pushing the boundaries of Mediterranean France

Jews as Muslims and Muslims as Jews

Expanding the republic or ending the empire?

A time of choosing

Higher fences, better neighbors?

Jews as Jews and Muslims as Muslims

Jews and Muslims always and forever?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-440) and index.

National Jewish Book Awards - Writing Based on Archival Material, Winner, 2015

ISBN:

9780674088689

0674088689

OCLC:

906121605

Publisher Number:

40025331219