Description
Book SynopsisThis major work follows the reshaping of Franco-Jewish identity from legal emancipation after the French revolution through the creation in 1860 of the Alliance Israelite Universelle, the first international Jewish organization devoted to the struggle for Jewish rights throughout the world.
Trade Review“This is one of the most important works on French Jewish intellectual and cultural history to have appeared in recent years. In a deft revision of the accepted picture of French Jewry, Graetz interweaves intellectual and cultural trends and a close study of political developments to present a composite picture of a group in the process of fundamental transformation.”—Aron Rodrigue, Stanford University
Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. From dispersal to Jacobin unity: Jewish communal life restructured under the impact of the revolution and Napoleon; 2. Paris becomes the centre of French Jewry; 3. Rothschild, King of Jews; 4. Breaking stereotypes; 5. The spirit of enterprise; 6. From religion to politics: the republic of the Hebrews; 7. Encounters and clashes with the republican survivors of 1848; 8. The periphery and the center meet: the creation of the Alliance Israelite Universelle; Conclusion; Notes; Index.
