Jews of Modern France

Name: Jews of Modern France
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ISBN: 9780520209251

ISBN-10: 0520209257

ISBN-13: 9780520209251

Edition: 1998

Authors: Paula E. Hyman

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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…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/22/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Foreword


Preface



Before the Revolution



The French Revolution and the Emancipation of the Jews



The Napoleonic Synthesis



Acculturation and Mobility



French Jews and World Jewry



Antisemitism and the Dreyfus Affair



Immigration and the Remaking of French Jewry, 1881-1918



Between Two World Wars: The Inescapable Impact of Economics and Politics



The Holocaust in France



A Renewed Community


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


List of Illustrations


Index