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This innovative exploration of various Jewish experiences in France and the Francophone world through nuanced questions and representations offers an intertwining of perspectives that challenge geographical, chronological, and theoretical boundaries.
List of contents
Introduction: The Varied Jewish Ideas of France
Part I: Identities 1. "They Are the Smart Set": Female Society Portraiture and Jewish Class Aspirations in Nineteenth-Century France 2.
Les angles morts de l'universalisme: Whiteness and Jewishness in Adolphe Crémieux's Legal Writings 3. Fascism and Antifascism: North African Jews and French Republican Values in the 1930s 4. Beyond a Jewish "Colonial Fracture": Assimilation and Persecution in Roger Ikor and Albert Memmi's 1955 Novels 5. French Jewry Confronts the Separation of Church and State: Challenges and Opportunities 6. Franco-Judaism: Diverse, in Flux, and Transnational
Part II: Movements 7. Defying the Soviet Regime, Embracing the French Republic: Jewish-Russian Émigrés' Publishing Activities in Interwar France 8. "Undesirables" in France: Ilse Bing, Luise Straus-Ernst, and German-Jewish Women During the Second World War 9. Mediterranean Crossings: Egyptian Jews and France 10. Mediating Migration, Brokering Belonging: The Moroccan Alliance Israélite Universelle Teachers' Union, 1943-1964 11. The Politics of the Arab-Jew: Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Futures in North African Jewish Writing of the 1980s
About the author
Meredith Scott is an Associate Professor of History at the US Air Force Academy, where she teaches European history, genocide, the Holocaust, and global history. Her book
The Lifeline: Salomon Grumbach and the Quest for Safety (2022) examines interwar Jewish activism in the realms of human rights, refugees, and democracy.
Nick Underwood is an Assistant Professor of History and the Neilsen-Berger Chair of Judaic Studies at The College of Idaho. He has written widely on topics related to Yiddish culture in twentieth-century France, including his first book,
Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France (2022; National Jewish Book Award finalist).
