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Modern French Jewish thought : writings on religion and politics / edited by Sarah Hammerschlag.

Van Pelt Library DS135.F83 M646 2018
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
Hammerschlag, Sarah, editor.
Series:
Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)
The Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry
The Brandeis library of modern Jewish thought
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Jewish philosophy.
Jews.
Identity (Philosophical concept).
Judaism.
History.
Intellectual life.
France--Ethnic relations.
France.
Ethnic relations.
Jews--France--Intellectual life--20th century--Sources.
Jews--France--Intellectual life--21st century--Sources.
Judaism--France--History--Sources.
Jews--France--Identity--Sources.
Jewish philosophy--France--20th century--Sources.
Jewish philosophy--France--21st century--Sources.
Jews--Identity.
Jews--Intellectual life.
Genre:
History.
Sources.
Physical Description:
xxvii, 268 pages ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2018]
Summary:
Modern Jewish thought" is often defined as a German affair, with interventions from Eastern European, American, and Israeli philosophers. The story of France's development of its own schools of thought has not been substantially treated outside the French milieu. 0This anthology of modern French Jewish writing offers the first look at how this significant and diverse body of work developed within the historical and intellectual contexts of France and Europe. Translated into English, these documents speak to two critical axes-the first between Jewish universalism and particularism, and the second between identification and disidentification of French Jews with France as a nation. Offering key works from Simone Weil, Vladimir Jankelevitch, Emmanuel Levinas, Albert Memmi, Helene Cixous, Jacques Derrida, and many others, this volume is organized in roughly chronological order to highlight the connections among religion, politics, and history as they coalesce around a Judaism that is unique to France.
Contents:
The people / Joseph Salvador
Preface, the prophets of Israel / James Darmesteter
Speech on the acceptance of his position as chief rabbi of France / Zadoc Kahn
Judaism's conception of the social and the Jewish people : Jewish capitalism and democracy / Bernard Lazare
Preface (1959) to Jewish poems; prologue (1919) to Jewish poems; Jewish dreams / André Spire
Alliance israélite universelle / Sylvain Lévi
Why l am a Jew / Edmond Fleg
What is a Jew? / Simone Weil
Tivliout : harmony / Robert Gamzon
The Galuth / Jacob Gordin
The Jewish experience of the prisoner / Emmanuel Levinas
Judaism, an "internal problem" / Vladimir Jankélévitch
Smothered words / Sarah Kofman,
The Jew, the nation, and history / Albert Memmi
The Jews of the diaspora, or the vocation of a minority / Richard Marienstras
The Jewish dimension of space : Zionism / André Neher
Jerusalem : the terrestrial, the celestial / Henri Atlan
Klal Israel : the totality minus one / Shmuel Trigano
The lost children of Judaism / Jacqueline Mesnil-Amar
Tradition and modernity / Léon Ashkénazi
From the novelesque to memory / Alain Finkielkraut
Albums and legends : the dawn of phallocentrism / Hélène Cixous
Avowing
the impossible : "returns," repentance, and reconciliation, a lesson / Jacques Derrida
Normative modernity and critical modernity / Stéphane Mosès.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
Other Format:
Online version: Modern French Jewish thought.
ISBN:
9781512601862
9781611685268
1611685265
1512601861
OCLC:
1007497690
Publisher Number:
99976931211

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