The Jews of Modern France

1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-520-20925-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 278 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 452 g

Reihe: Jewish Communities in the Modern World

The Jews of Modern France explores the endlessly complex encounter of France and its Jews from just before the Revolution to the eve of the twenty-first century. In the late eighteenth century, some forty thousand Jews lived in scattered communities on the peripheries of the French state, not considered French by others or by themselves. Two hundred years later, in 1989, France celebrated the anniversary of the Revolution with the largest, most vital Jewish population in western and central Europe.

Paula Hyman looks closely at the period that began when France's Jews were offered citizenship during the Revolution. She shows how they and succeeding generations embraced the opportunities of integration and acculturation, redefined their identities, adapted their Judaism to the pragmatic and ideological demands of the time, and participated fully in French culture and politics. Within this same period, Jews in France fell victim to a secular political antisemitism that mocked the gains of emancipation, culminating first in the Dreyfus Affair and later in the murder of one-fourth of them in the Holocaust. Yet up to the present day, through successive waves of immigration, Jews have asserted the compatibility of their French identity with various versions of Jewish particularity, including Zionism. This remarkable view in microcosm of the modern Jewish experience will interest general readers and scholars alike.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hyman, Paula E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Preface

1. Before the Revolution
2. The French Revolution and the Emancipation of the Jews
3. The Napoleonic Synthesis
4. Acculturation and Mobility
5. French Jews and World Jewry
6. Antisemitism and the Dreyfus Affair
7. Immigration and the Remaking of French Jewry, 1881-1918
8. Between Two World Wars: The Inescapable Impact of Economics and Politics
9. The Holocaust in France
10. A Renewed Community

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Paula E. Hyman is Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University and author of numerous books. Most recently she coedited (with Deborah Dash Moore) the prize-winning Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (1997).