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Rhinestones, religion, and the republic : fashioning Jewishness in France / Kimberly A. Arkin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arkin, Kimberly A.
- Series:
- Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
- Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--France--Identity.
- Jews.
- Jews, North African--France.
- Jews, North African.
- Nationalism--France.
- Nationalism.
- Sephardim--France.
- Sephardim.
- France--Ethnic relations.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 306 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Between 2003 and 2005, French-born North African Jewish (Sephardi) youth in Paris repeatedly told anthropologist Kimberly Arkin that they were not French and could not to imagine a Jewish future in France. Why? This questions fuels Arkin's analysis of the connections and disjunctures between Jews and Muslims, religion and secular Republicanism, race and national community, identity and culture in post-colonial France.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One. French “Natives” and Native Jews
- Two. Arab, Jew, Arab Jew
- Three. Four Cubits of Jewish Schooling
- Four. Religion to Race
- Five. Domesticating Diaspora
- Six. Looking Jewish in Paris
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 26, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9780804787901
- 0804787905
- OCLC:
- 872700281
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