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Author Arkin, Kimberly A

Title Rhinestones, religion, and the republic : fashioning Jewishness in France / Kimberly A. Arkin
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 306 pages)
Series Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Contents French 'natives' and native Jews -- Arab, Jew, Arab Jew -- Four cubits of Jewish schooling -- Religion to race -- Domesticating diaspora -- Looking Jewish in Paris
Summary Between 2003 and 2005, French-born North African Jewish (Sephardi) youth in Paris repeatedly told anthropologist Kimberly Arkin that they were not French and could not to imagine a Jewish future in France. Why? This questions fuels Arkin's analysis of the connections and disjunctures between Jews and Muslims, religion and secular Republicanism, race and national community, identity and culture in post-colonial France
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 26, 2013)
Subject Jews -- France -- Identity
Jews, North African -- France
Nationalism -- France.
Sephardim -- France
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Ethnic relations
Jews -- Identity
Jews, North African
Nationalism
Sephardim
SUBJECT France -- Ethnic relations
Subject France
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804787901
0804787905