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French and Jewish : culture and the politics of identity in early twentieth-century France / Nadia Malinovich

Malinovich, Nadia [Verfasser]

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021

Oxford : Oxford University Press

1 Online-Ressource (viii, 280 pages) : Illustrations.

Liverpool scholarship online

Previously issued in print: London: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-1-80034-263-7 ; 978-1-90-411340-9

 

Frankreich  Juden  Kulturelle Identität  Geschichte 1890-1932 

 

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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. Following the Dreyfus affair, French Jews increasingly began to question how Jewishness should be defined in a society where Jews enjoyed full political equality. Writers began to explore biblical themes, traditional Jewish folklore, and issues of identity and assimilation. A plethora of new journals focusing on Jewish religion, history, and culture came into being, as did a multitude of associations that emphasized Jewish distinctiveness. This book explores this blossoming of Jewish cultural life in France. It shows that the interface between the various groups was as important as the differences between them.