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Les intellectuels français et Israël

Author : Denis Charbit
Publisher : Editions de l'Eclat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Les intellectuels français et Israël written by Denis Charbit and published by Editions de l'Eclat. This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: À la « question juive » du XIXe siècle est venue se substituer ou s'ajouter au XXe siècle, la «question d'Israël», suscitant dans les milieux politiques et intellectuels des clivages surprenants et des revirements quelquefois inattendus. La création d'Israël a ravivé une série de problématiques qui ont modelé la politique contemporaine: Etat/communauté, laïcité/religion, orient/occident, etc. Dès avant 1948, les intellectuels français ont largement discuté de ces questions, depuis les débats entre le franco-judaïsme et le sionisme jusqu'aux prises de position contrastées d'un Louis Massignon ou Maurice Blanchot, de Jean-Paul Sartre ou François Furet, d'Albert Cohen ou Chris Marker, d'Annie Kriegel ou Alain Badiou, dont les revues d'idées se firent l'écho. Entre les condamnations et les enthousiasmes, les incompréhensions et les fidélités, ce sont les « aventures » de ces prises de position et polémiques qui sont présentées dans cet ouvrage collectif, issu de deux colloques tenus à l'Université de Tel-Aviv en 2007 et 2008. Pages de début Présentation 1. Avant Israël Israël avant Israël D'un État l'autre ? 2. Portraits de groupes Figures de Juifs français au tournant des années 1920-1930 Juifs poètes de langue française: affirmation d'une identité Ecrivains juifs de langue française: une écriture nouée à l'histoire 3. Figures Louis Massignon, le sionisme et l'État d'Israël Albert Cohen, « un arbre de Judée dans la forêt française »? « Quoi qu'il arrive je suis avec Israël » Révolution sans table rase Du parti communiste au parti d'Israël : l'itinéraire d'Annie Kriegel Alain Badiou antimoderne : la question d'Israël De l'essai et le midrash 4. Médias Israël autour de 1967 dans la revue Esprit Le Monde diplomatique et le conflit : prendre parti ou parti-pris? L'esprit du temps: les intellectuels, la télévision et Israël 5. Envois Un phénomène intéressant: les « amis de "La Paix maintenant" » Le souci d'Israël Pages de fin.

Les Mots et la Terre

Author : Shlomo Sand
Publisher : Fayard
ISBN 13 : 2213653771
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book Les Mots et la Terre written by Shlomo Sand and published by Fayard. This book was released on 2006-05-03 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'élaboration de l'idée de nation juive a débuté bien avant que le mouvement sioniste ne s'organise et s'est prolongée bien après la création d'Israël. Dans Les Mots et la Terre, Shlomo Sand s'interroge sur la contribution des intellectuels juifs et israéliens à ce processus. Il étudie et met en cause un à un tous les mythes fondateurs de l'État d'Israël, à commencer par celui d'un peuple déraciné par la force, un peuple race qui se serait mis à errer de par le monde à la recherche d'une terre d'asile. Un peuple qui se définira donc sur une base biologique ou « mythologico-religieuse », comme l'attestent les termes d'« exil », de « retour », de « montée » vers la terre d'origine, qui nourrissent toujours les écrits politiques, littéraires ou historiques israéliens. La majorité des intellectuels en Israël persistent à assumer depuis 1948 cet imaginaire ethno-national et à embrasser une identité étatique exclusive à laquelle seuls les juifs peuvent s'associer. Les premières fissures dans cette conception dominante n'ont fait leur apparition qu'au cours des années quatre-vingt, à travers les travaux novateurs d'historiens que l'on a qualifiés de « post-sionistes ». En rappelant également la façon dont les clercs israéliens se sont positionnés face à la guerre du Golfe dans un contexte de modernisation des moyens de communication, c'est finalement à une réflexion globale sur le statut de l'intellectuel dans nos sociétés que nous convie Shlomo Sand.

Israel dans la conscience juive : données et débats. VIIe et IXe Colloques d'Intellectuels Juifs de Langue Française

Author : Eliane Amado Lévy-Valensi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book Israel dans la conscience juive : données et débats. VIIe et IXe Colloques d'Intellectuels Juifs de Langue Française written by Eliane Amado Lévy-Valensi and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Francophone Jewish Writers

Author : Lucille Cairns
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 178138262X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Francophone Jewish Writers written by Lucille Cairns and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the differing emotional investments in Israel of, on the one hand, Jews physically domiciled in Israel and, on the other hand, diasporic Jews living outside Israel for whom the country nonetheless forms a central point of affect. The book's purpose is to trace how these two types of investment are represented by francophone Jewish writers. Israel is at once a problematic geopolitical reality in international politics and a salient topos within Jewish cultural imaginaries that transcend national boundaries. However, it has often been claimed that Israel has aspecial relationship with France, which until 1967 was its greatest ally. Israel has a large francophone community (some 800,000), while France has the largest Jewish community in Europe (some 600,000). But Franco-Israeli relations have undergone radical, largely negative transformations under the Fifth Republic (1958- ). The scope of the book is wide, addressing the following questions. How do francophone Jewish writers represent Israel in their literary works? What responses to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict do they express both in these works and in non-literary discourse (interviews and journalistic articles)? What is the role in those responses of emotion, affect, cognition, and ethics? To answer these questions, the book examines 44 different autobiographies, memoirs and novels published between 1965 and 2012 by 27 different authors, both male and female, covering the full cultural spectrum of Jews: Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Mizrahi. The approach of the book is interdisciplinary, combining literary analysis with insights from the domains of history, journalism, philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis, and sociology.

Proust, a Jewish Way

Author : Antoine Compagnon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231558864
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Proust, a Jewish Way written by Antoine Compagnon and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcel Proust once wrote, “There is no longer anybody, not even myself, since I cannot leave my bed, who will go along the Rue du Repos to visit the little Jewish cemetery where my grandfather, following a custom that he never understood, went for so many years to lay a stone on his parents’ grave.” Investigating the origin and significance of this statement, Antoine Compagnon offers new insight into the great author’s underappreciated Jewish side. Compagnon traces Proust’s ties to the French Jewish community, examining his relations with his mother’s successful and assimilated family, the Weils. He explores how French Jews read and responded to Proust’s masterpiece In Search of Lost Time in the 1920s and 1930s. Challenging contemporary critics who perceive self-hatred or even antisemitism in Proust’s work, Compagnon shows that many Jewish intellectuals and young Zionists admired and vigorously debated the novel, some seeing it as a source for pride in their Jewish identity. He also considers Proust’s portrayal of homosexuality and how it relates to notions of Jewishness. A work of remarkable erudition and deep research, Proust, a Jewish Way brings to light the vanished world of Proust’s first Jewish readers and shows how it can illuminate our reading of the great novelist today.

An Uncertain Future

Author : Robert I. Weiner
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442605618
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book An Uncertain Future written by Robert I. Weiner and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contemporary oral history, based on interviews conducted over an 18-year period, is the first of its kind in English. The interviews, some repeated with the same subjects over years, demonstrate how the Jewish community of Dijon has evolved over time in response to challenges both internal and external. The authors provide an introduction to the series of interviews as well as a detailed history of the community. A chronology, a map of Dijon, and photos of many interviewees are included. The book also provides an update on recent events in the community, a suggested reading list, and a bibliography.

Arendt, Levinas and a Politics of Relationality

Author : Anya Topolski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783483431
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Arendt, Levinas and a Politics of Relationality written by Anya Topolski and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Eastern Europe, educated in the West under the guidance of Martin Heidegger and the phenomenological tradition, and forced to flee during the Holocaust because of their Jewish identity, it should come as no surprise that Emmanuel Levinas and Hannah Arendt’s ideas intersect in an important way. This book demonstrates for the first time the significance of a dialogue between Levinas’ ethics of alterity and Arendt’s politics of plurality. Anya Topolski brings their respective projects into dialogue by means of the notion of relationality, a concept inspired by the Judaic tradition that is prominent in both thinker’s work. The book explores questions relating to the relationship between ethics and politics, the Judaic contribution to rethinking the meaning of the political after the Shoah, and the role of relationality and responsibility for politics. The result is an alternative conception of the political based on the ideas of plurality and alterity that aims to be relational, inclusive, and empowering.

In the Shadow of the Wall

Author : Vincent Lemire
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503634213
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Wall written by Vincent Lemire and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maghrebi Quarter of Jerusalem long sat in the shadow of the Western Wall, the last vestige of the Second Temple. Three days after the June '67 War, Israeli forces razed the Quarter, its narrow alleys widened and homes removed, to create the Western Wall Plaza. With this book, Vincent Lemire offers the first history of the Maghrebi Quarter—spanning 800 years from its founding by Saladin in 1187 to house North African Muslim pilgrims through to its destruction. To bring this vanished district back to life, Lemire gathers its now-scattered documentation in the archives of Muslim pious foundations in Jerusalem and the Red Cross in Geneva, in Ottoman archives in Istanbul and Israeli state archives. He engages testimonies of former residents and looks to recent archaeological digs that have resurfaced household objects buried during the destruction. Today, the Western Wall Plaza extends over the former Maghrebi Quarter. It is one of the most identifiable places in the world—yet one of the most occluded in history. In the Shadow of the Wall offers a new point of entry to understand this consequential place.

The Wisdom of Love

Author : Alain Finkielkraut
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803269040
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book The Wisdom of Love written by Alain Finkielkraut and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wisdom of Love examines the seemingly contradictory claims of universalism and partisanship for the ethnic or racial Other. In discussions of topics ranging from the work of the Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Lävinas to the Dreyfus Affair of the 1890s to the contending positions of Right and Left in the recent culture wars in Europe and the Americas, Finkielkraut cautions against both an unreflective universalism and an equally inflexible advocacy of the Other. He argues instead that genuine respect for the Other is inseparable from calls for universal justice and equality. Rather than being opposites, otherness and universalism are, for Finkielkraut, inextricably bound to one another.

Contemporary Sephardic and Mizrahi Literature

Author : Dario Miccoli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315308584
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Sephardic and Mizrahi Literature written by Dario Miccoli and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the literary texts produced by Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews who migrated from the Middle East and North Africa in the 1950s onwards, should be considered as part of a transnational arena, in which forms of Jewish diasporism and postcolonial displacement interweave. Through an original perspective that focuses on novelists, poets, professional and amateur writers, the book explains that these Sephardic and Mizrahi authors are part of a global literary diaspora at the crossroads of past Arab legacies, new national identities and persistent feelings of Jewishness.

The European Left and the Jewish Question, 1848-1992

Author : Alessandra Tarquini
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030566625
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The European Left and the Jewish Question, 1848-1992 written by Alessandra Tarquini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how left-wing political and cultural movements in Western Europe have considered Jews in the last two hundred years. The chapters seek to answer the following question: has there been a specific way in which the Left has considered Jewish minorities? The subject has taken various shapes in the different geographical contexts, influenced by national specificities. In tandem, this volume demonstrates the extent to which left-wing movements share common trends drawn from a collective repertoire of representations and meanings. Highlighting the different aspects of the subject matter, the chapters in this book are divided in three parts, each dedicated to a major theme: the contribution of the theorists of Socialism to the Jewish Question; Antisemitism and its representations in left-wing culture; and the perception of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Taken together, these three themes allow for a multidisciplinary analysis of the relationship between the Left and Jews from the second half of the nineteenth century to recent times.

Modern French Jewish Thought

Author : Sarah Hammerschlag
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
ISBN 13 : 1512601861
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Modern French Jewish Thought written by Sarah Hammerschlag and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating anthology that traces the trajectory of Jewish thought in twentieth-century France

Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn

Author : Ethan Kleinberg
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503629600
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn written by Ethan Kleinberg and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rich intellectual history of the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic lectures in Paris, Ethan Kleinberg addresses Levinas's Jewish life and its relation to his philosophical writings while making an argument for the role and importance of Levinas's Talmudic lessons. Pairing each chapter with a related Talmudic lecture, Kleinberg uses the distinction Levinas presents between "God on Our Side" and "God on God's Side" to provide two discrete and at times conflicting approaches to Levinas's Talmudic readings. One is historically situated and argued from "our side" while the other uses Levinas's Talmudic readings themselves to approach the issues as timeless and derived from "God on God's own side." Bringing the two approaches together, Kleinberg asks whether the ethical message and moral urgency of Levinas's Talmudic lectures can be extended beyond the texts and beliefs of a chosen people, religion, or even the seemingly primary unit of the self. Touching on Western philosophy, French Enlightenment universalism, and the Lithuanian Talmudic tradition, Kleinberg provides readers with a boundary-pushing investigation into the origins, influences, and causes of Levinas's turn to and use of Talmud.

Jewish Identity in French Cinema (1950-2010)

Author : Serge Bokobza
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443889385
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Identity in French Cinema (1950-2010) written by Serge Bokobza and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the expression of a Jewish identity in French films and the characteristics used by filmmakers to portray this nebulous concept in movies produced after the Shoah and World War II. Throughout a sixty-year span, French directors struggled to define Jewish identity and a correlation with the larger question of French national identity. The study delves into the larger question of Jewish identity as characterised in works of cinematic fiction in accordance with the history of the Jews of France, using the centrality of the emancipation paradigm of 1791 and the theoretical frame provided by Jean-Paul Sartre’s Réflexions sur la question juive. The book identifies and describes three categories of films produced between 1950 and 2010 that represent the manner in which directors portrayed an evolving Jewish identity and its relation to French society, rejecting the practice of labeling a film as “Jewish” because of the ethnicity of a director or writer. Based on extensive research including the review of over 200 full-length films, the book provides an overview of features addressing the concept of Jewish identity and includes a Descriptive Filmography of productions matching the author’s definition of a Jewish-identity film. From the template La Grande Illusion to contemporary releases, the book argues that French Jewish-identity films dwell in the sociological realm of Jewishness, as the epicenter of tension is rooted in identity rather than religion.

A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations

Author : Abdelwahab Meddeb
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400849136
Total Pages : 1153 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations written by Abdelwahab Meddeb and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 1153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first encylopedic guide to the history of relations between Jews and Muslims around the world This is the first encyclopedic guide to the history of relations between Jews and Muslims around the world from the birth of Islam to today. Richly illustrated and beautifully produced, the book features more than 150 authoritative and accessible articles by an international team of leading experts in history, politics, literature, anthropology, and philosophy. Organized thematically and chronologically, this indispensable reference provides critical facts and balanced context for greater historical understanding and a more informed dialogue between Jews and Muslims. Part I covers the medieval period; Part II, the early modern period through the nineteenth century, in the Ottoman Empire, Africa, Asia, and Europe; Part III, the twentieth century, including the exile of Jews from the Muslim world, Jews and Muslims in Israel, and Jewish-Muslim politics; and Part IV, intersections between Jewish and Muslim origins, philosophy, scholarship, art, ritual, and beliefs. The main articles address major topics such as the Jews of Arabia at the origin of Islam; special profiles cover important individuals and places; and excerpts from primary sources provide contemporary views on historical events. Contributors include Mark R. Cohen, Alain Dieckhoff, Michael Laskier, Vera Moreen, Gordon D. Newby, Marina Rustow, Daniel Schroeter, Kirsten Schulze, Mark Tessler, John Tolan, Gilles Veinstein, and many more. Covers the history of relations between Jews and Muslims around the world from the birth of Islam to today Written by an international team of leading scholars Features in-depth articles on social, political, and cultural history Includes profiles of important people (Eliyahu Capsali, Joseph Nasi, Mohammed V, Martin Buber, Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin, Edward Said, Messali Hadj, Mahmoud Darwish) and places (Jerusalem, Alexandria, Baghdad) Presents passages from essential documents of each historical period, such as the Cairo Geniza, Al-Sira, and Judeo-Persian illuminated manuscripts Richly illustrated with more than 250 images, including maps and color photographs Includes extensive cross-references, bibliographies, and an index

Just Images

Author : Boaz Hagin
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443830828
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Just Images written by Boaz Hagin and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just Images: Ethics and the Cinematic charts current developments within the field of ethics and the role it plays in the study of moving images. It is the first collection of essays of its kind that brings together articles by film and media scholars from three continents, and provides multiple points of engagement of film with present and past histories, politics, myth making, and with core aspects of human subjectivity. The essays cover a wide range of topics, such as the European Union; Europe during World War II and after; film genres; the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; early American history, and recent catastrophic events. The collection includes an introductory chapter by Thomas Elsaesser as well as chapters by Kristian Feigelson, Régine-Mihal Friedman, Nurith Gertz and Gal Hermoni, Anton Kaes, Gertrud Koch, Odeya Kohen-Raz, Lihi Nagler, Judd Ne’eman, Bill Nichols, and Janet Walker. The contributors offer different approaches to the issue of film and ethics and ask whether there are specific characteristics of the moving image, or of film scholarship, that relate to ethical issues; and how discussing the engagement of both narrative and documentary film with representations of the Other, trauma, terrorism, the Holocaust, and the Palestinian–Israeli conflict may contribute to the re-shaping of past and current thoughts on these subjects.

The Jews of France

Author : Esther Benbassa
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400823145
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Jews of France written by Esther Benbassa and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first English-language edition of a general, synthetic history of French Jewry from antiquity to the present, Esther Benbassa tells the intriguing tale of the social, economic, and cultural vicissitudes of a people in diaspora. With verve and insight, she reveals the diversity of Jewish life throughout France's regions, while showing how Jewish identity has constantly redefined itself in a country known for both the Rights of Man and the Dreyfus affair. Beginning with late antiquity, she charts the migrations of Jews into France and traces their fortunes through the making of the French kingdom, the Revolution, the rise of modern anti-Semitism, and the current renewal of interest in Judaism. As early as the fourth century, Jews inhabited Roman Gaul, and by the reign of Charlemagne, some figured prominently at court. The perception of Jewish influence on France's rulers contributed to a clash between church and monarchy that would culminate in the mass expulsion of Jews in the fourteenth century. The book examines the re-entry of small numbers of Jews as New Christians in the Southwest and the emergence of a new French Jewish population with the country's acquisition of Alsace and Lorraine. The saga of modernity comes next, beginning with the French Revolution and the granting of citizenship to French Jews. Detailed yet quick-paced discussions of key episodes follow: progress made toward social and political integration, the shifting social and demographic profiles of Jews in the 1800s, Jewish participation in the economy and the arts, the mass migrations from Eastern Europe at the turn of the twentieth century, the Dreyfus affair, persecution under Vichy, the Holocaust, and the postwar arrival of North African Jews. Reinterpreting such themes as assimilation, acculturation, and pluralism, Benbassa finds that French Jews have integrated successfully without always risking loss of identity. Published to great acclaim in France, this book brings important current issues to bear on the study of Judaism in general, while making for dramatic reading.