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

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