French and Jewish culture and the politics of identity in early-twentieth century France

This study of Jewish cultural innovation in early twentieth-century France highlights the complexity and ambivalence of Jewish identity and self-definition in the modern world. This stimulating and original book makes a major contribution to our understanding of modern Jewish history as well as to t...

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Malinovich, Nadia
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
London The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press [2008]
Zusammenfassung:
This study of Jewish cultural innovation in early twentieth-century France highlights the complexity and ambivalence of Jewish identity and self-definition in the modern world. This stimulating and original book makes a major contribution to our understanding of modern Jewish history as well as to the history of the Jews in France and to the larger discourse about modern Jewish identities.
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Transliteration and Conventions Used in the Text -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Setting the Stage: Jewish Identity in the Nineteenth Century and the Impact of the Dreyfus Affair -- Chapter 2. The Beginnings of a French Jewish Literature -- Chapter 3. Between Religion and Ethnicity: Zionism and Reform Judaism before the First World War -- Chapter 4. The First World War and the Shifting Landscape of French Jewry -- Chapter 5. Enlivening the Public Sphere: Jewish Sociability in the 1920s -- Chapter 6. The Media and the Arts -- Chapter 7. Jewish Literature in France, 1920-1932 -- Chapter 8. Reshaping Franco-Judaism, 1920-1932 -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- I. Books, Plays, and Films on Jewish Themes Debated at the Club du Faubourg, 1924-1929 -- II. Titles in the Rieder Series -- III. An Overview of Fiction on Jewish Themes, 1900-1940 -- Bibliography -- Index.
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1 Online-Ressource (viii, 279 Seiten)
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Biblio­graphische Verweise:
(DE-627-1)054619440
(EBC)EBC6260189
(EBL)EBL6260189
(EBP)054619440
Schriftenreihe:
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
ISBN:
9781800345393
Schlagworte:
Frankreich
Juden
Kulturelle Identität
Geschichte 1890-1932
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Ethnic relations
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