The Jews of modern France : images and identities / edited by Zvi Jonathan Kaplan and Nadia Malinovich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kaplan, Zvi Jonathan, editor.

Series:

Brill's series in Jewish studies ; volume 56.

Brill's Series in Jewish studies ; volume 56

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--France--History.

Jews.

Jews--Cultural assimilation.

France.

History.

Jews--Cultural assimilation--France.

France--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

XII, 355 pages: illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Summary:

The Jews of Modern France: Images and Identities synthesizes much of the original research on modern French Jewish history published over the last decade. Themes include Jewish self-representation and discursive frameworks, cultural continuity and rupture from the eve of emancipation to the contemporary period, and the impact of France's role as a colonial power. This volume also explores the overlapping boundaries between the very categories of "Jewish" and "French." As a whole, this volume focuses on the shifting boundaries between inner-directed and outer-directed Jewish concerns, behaviors, and attitudes in France over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contributors highlight the fluidity of French Jewish identity, demonstrating that there is no fine line between communal insider and outsider or between an internal and external Jewish concern. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Historiography

1 The Jews of Modern France: A Historiographical Essay / Daniella Doron Doron, Daniella 9

Part 2 Jewish Integration, Jewish Distinctiveness

2 The Trial of Jacob Benjamin, Supplier to the French Army, 1792-93 / Ronald Schechter Schechter, Ronald 35

3 Reading, Writing, and Religion: The Education of Working-Class Jewish Girls in Paris, 1822-1914 / Jennifer Sartori Sartori, Jennifer 62

4 A Jurisprudential Quandary: Jewish Marriage in Post-Separation France / Zvi Jonathan Kaplan Kaplan, Zvi Jonathan 82

5 Affirming Difference, Confirming Integration: New Forms of Sociability Among French Jews in the 1920s / Nadia Malinovich Malinovich, Nadia 102

Part 3 Jews and Politics, Jewish Politics

6 Jews, Liberals and the Civilizing Mission in Nineteenth-Century France / Lisa Moses Leff Leff, Lisa Moses 129

7 Jewish Anticlericalism in Germany and France: A Transnational Polemic / Ari Joskowicz Joskowicz, Ari 154

8 Shaping Children's Lives: American Jewish Aid in Post-World War II France (1944-1948) / Laura Hobson Faure Faure, Laura Hobson 173

9 "The French Jewish Community Speaks to You with One Voice": Dissent and the Shaping of French Jewish Politics since World War II / Ethan B. Katz Katz, Ethan B., Maud S. Mandel Mandel, Maud S. 194

10 A Jewish-Muslim Battle on the World Stage: Constantine, Algeria 1956 / Jessica Hammerman Hammerman, Jessica 228

Part 4 Imagining Jews, Performing Jewishness

11 Thinking the Jew through the Turbulent Nineteenth Century: The Idea of Rachel / Julie Kalman Kalman, Julie 253

12 Disunity in Death: Jewish Funerals in the Jewish Press in Mid-Nineteenth Century Paris / Jeffrey Haus Haus, Jeffrey 271

13 Not as Simple as "Bonjour": Synagogue Building in Nineteenth-Century Paris / Saskia Coenen Snyder Snyder, Saskia Coenen 286

14 Reimagining Jewish-Muslim Relations on Screen: French-Jewish Filmmakers and the Middle East Conflict / Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall Sepinwall, Alyssa Goldstein 302

15 Defining France and Defending Israel: Romantic Nationalism and the Paradoxes of French Jewish Belonging / Kimberly A. Arkin Arkin, Kimberly A. 323.

Notes:

Includes index.

Other Format:

Online version: Jews of modern France.

ISBN:

9789004324183

9004324186

OCLC:

950004334