Inventing the Israelite - Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France

Zusatztext 92792314 Informationen zum Autor Maurice Samuels is Professor of French at Yale University. He is the author of The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France (2004). Klappentext This book brings to light the first Jewish fiction in French and reveals how the first generation of Jews born as French citizens used fiction as a laboratory for experimenting with modern forms of Jewish identity. Zusammenfassung This book brings to light the first Jewish fiction in French and reveals how the first generation of Jews born as French citizens used fiction as a laboratory for experimenting with modern forms of Jewish identity.

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• Authors: Maurice Samuels
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.12.2009
• EAN: 9780804763844
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-6384-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His; Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures