Title Inventing the Israelite : Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France

Published Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (337 pages) Series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture. Contents Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Out of the Archive; 1. Romantic Exoticism: Eugnie Foa and the Dilemmas of Assimilation; 2. Between Realism and Idealism: Ben-Lvi and the Reformist Impulse; 3. A Conservative Renegade: Ben Baruch and Neo-Orthodoxy; 4. Village Tales: Alexandre Weill and Mosaic Monotheism; 5. Ghetto Fiction: Daniel Stauben, David Schornstein, and the Uses of the Jewish Past; Conclusion: Proust's Progenitors; Notes; Index Summary 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 Notes Print version record Subject French fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Judaism and literature -- France -- History -- 19th century Jews in literature. French fiction French fiction -- Jewish authors Jews in literature Judaism and literature France Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780804773423 0804773424

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