The Jews of Modern France : Images and Identities.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Historiography -- Chapter 1 The Jews of Modern France: A Historiographical Essay -- Part 2 Jewish Integration, Jewish Distinctiveness -- Chapter 2 The Trial of Jacob Benjamin, Supplier to the French Army, 1792-93 -- Chapter 3 Reading, Writing, and Religion: The Education of Working-Class Jewish Girls in Paris, 1822-1914 -- Chapter 4 A Jurisprudential Quandary: Jewish Marriage in Post-Separation France -- Chapter 5 Affirming Difference, Confirming Integration: New Forms of Sociability Among French Jews in the 1920s -- Part 3 Jews and Politics, Jewish Politics -- Chapter 6 Jews, Liberals and the Civilizing Mission in Nineteenth-Century France1 -- Chapter 7 Jewish Anticlericalism in Germany and France: A Transnational Polemic -- Chapter 8 Shaping Children's Lives: American Jewish Aid in Post-World War II France (1944-1948) -- Chapter 9 "The French Jewish Community Speaks to You wi th One Voice": Dissent and the Shaping of FrenchJewish Politics since World War II -- Chapter 10 A Jewish-Muslim Battle on the World Stage: Constantine, Algeria 1956 -- Part 4 Imagining Jews, Performing Jewishness -- Chapter 11 Thinking the Jew through the Turbulent Nineteenth Century: The Idea of Rachel -- Chapter 12 Disunity in Death: Jewish Funerals in the Jewish Press in Mid-Nineteenth Century Paris -- Chapter 13 Not as Simple as "Bonjour": Synagogue Building in Nineteenth-Century Paris -- Chapter 14 Reimagining Jewish-Muslim Relations on Screen: French-Jewish Filmmakers and the Middle Eas tConflict -- Chapter 15 Defining France and Defending Israel: Romantic Nationalism and the Paradoxes of French Jewish Belonging -- Index.

The Jews of Modern France: Images and Identities focuses on the shifting boundaries between inner-directed and outer-directed Jewish concerns, behaviors and attitudes in France over the course of the late eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

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