The Jews of Modern France - Images and Identities

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.

About the author

Zvi Jonathan Kaplan, Ph.D. (2003), Columbia University, is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at the Lander College for Women of Touro College in Manhattan. He has published on Moses Mendelssohn, Hungarian Ultra-Orthodoxy, and modern French Jewish history. He is the author of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea? French Jewry and the Problem of Church and State (Brown University Press, 2009).

Nadia Malinovich, Ph.D (2000), University of Michigan, is Associate Professor of American Studies at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne. She is the author of French and Jewish: Culture and the Politics of Identity in Early Twentieth Century France (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008), and has also published on Sephardic Jews in the United States in the post-World War II years.

Product details

• Assisted by: Zvi Jonathan Kaplan (Editor), Nadia Malinovich (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.08.2016
• EAN: 9789004324183
• ISBN: 978-90-04-32418-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Series: Brill's Jewish Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism