Obstinate Hebrews - Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815

Informationen zum Autor Ronald Schechter is Associate Professor in the Lyon Gardiner Tyler Department of History! The College of William and Mary. He is editor of The French Revolution: The Essential Readings (2001). Klappentext " Obstinate Hebrews gives us a startling new look at both the Enlightenment and the Jewish presence in eighteenth-century France. Both sets of voices come through loud and clear: the Philosophes debating citizenship for the Jews with much more complexity than has been believed; Jews responding with their own self-perceptions, claiming they could be French patriots and practitioners of the Jewish religion at the same time. The universal and the particular are in constant interaction in Schechter's lively pages. His book, through its deep immersion in the eighteenth century, speaks to issues of our time."—Natalie Zemon Davis, author of Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth Century Lives Zusammenfassung Presents a study of representations of Jews in eighteenth-century France - both by Gentiles and Jews themselves. This work offers fresh perspectives on the Enlightenment and French Revolution, on Jewish history, and on the nature of racism and intolerance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A Nation within the Nation? The Jews of Old Regime France 2. Jews and Philosophes 3. Jews and Citizens 4. Contrapuntal Readings: Jewish Self-Representation in Prerevolutionary France 5. Constituting Differences: The French Revolution and the Jews 6. Familiar Strangers: Napoleon and the Jews Conclusion: Jews and Other "Others" Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Ronald Schechter, Schechter Ronald
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.2003
• EAN: 9780520235571
• ISBN: 978-0-520-23557-1
• No. of pages: 339
• Series: Studies on the History of Society and Culture; Studies on the History of Soci; Studies on the History of Society and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; History, Europe, European History, RELIGION / Judaism / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, Judaism