Jewish ideas of France : migration, diaspora, and empire /
edited by Meredith Scott and Nick Underwood.
- pages cm
- Routledge studies in the modern history of France .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the varied Jewish ideas of France / Meredith Scott and Nick Underwood -- "They are the smart set" : female society portraiture and Jewish class aspirations in nineteenth-century France / Neta Peretz -- Les angles morts de l'universalisme : whiteness and Jewishness in Adolphe Crémieux's legal writings / Nöemie Duhaut -- Fascism and antifascism : North African Jews and French republican values in the 1930s / Alma Heckman -- Beyond a Jewish "colonial fracture" : assimilation and persecution in Roger Ikor and Albert Memmi's 1955 novels / Kat Raichlen -- French Jewry confronts the separation of church and state : challenges and opportunities / Zvi Jonathan Kaplan -- Franco-Judaism : diverse, in flux, and transnational / Martine Cohen and Emmanuel Bloch -- Defying the Soviet regime, embracing the French Republic : Jewish-Russian émigrés' publishing activities in interwar France / Alexandra Preitschopf -- "Undesirables" in France : Ilse Bing, Luise Straus-Ernst, and German-Jewish women during the Second World War / Julia Elsky and Alissa Schapiro -- Mediterranean crossings : Egyptian Jews and France / Aimée Israel-Pelletier -- Mediating migration, brokering belonging : the Moroccan Alliance Israélite Universelle Teachers' Union, 1943-1964 / Roy Orel Shukrun -- The politics of the Arab-Jew : colonial histories and postcolonial futures in North African Jewish Writing of the 1980s / Mendel Kranz.
"This innovative exploration of various Jewish experiences in France and the Francophone world through nuanced questions and representations offers an intertwining of perspectives that challenge geographical, chronological, and theoretical boundaries. Engaging the transnational, it brings together studies highlighting the importance of migration, diaspora, identity, and empire for Jewish communities in metropolitan France and beyond. New and emerging scholars are invited into conversation with established thinkers to capture the present and future of French, Francophone, and Jewish Studies. Because identities are layered and multifaceted, the multidisciplinary studies in this volume are intended to illustrate how frameworks interact, overlap, and shift. The result of these efforts is a collection of essays that reveals the complex interplay between French and Jewish identities and how they have changed over time. Grounded in historical, literary, visual, sociological, and legal analyses, they delve into questions of gender, race, religion, empire, migration, culture, and communal life. Taken together, they problematize the categories often created to make meaning of complex dynamics. This book is an important secondary source for researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, and general readers interested in world history, Jewish Studies, French Studies, European Studies, and immigration and diaspora studies"-- Provided by publisher.
9781032508016 9781032508023
Jews--History--France--19th century Jews--History--France--20th century Jews--Identity--France National characteristics, French