By Maurice Samuels

ISBN-10: 0804763844

ISBN-13: 9780804763844

In this ebook, Maurice Samuels brings to gentle little recognized works of literature made out of 1830 to 1870 via the 1st iteration of Jews born as French voters. those writers, Samuels asserts, used fiction as a laboratory to scan with new varieties of Jewish identification suitable to the trendy international. of their tales and novels, they replied to the stereotypical depictions of Jews in French tradition whereas creatively adapting the types and genres of the French literary culture. in addition they provided leading edge recommendations to the relevant dilemmas of Jewish modernity within the French context—including the way to reconcile their identities as Jews with the universalizing calls for of the French progressive culture. whereas their strategies ranged from whole assimilation to a contemporary model of orthodoxy, those writers jointly illustrate the creativity of a group within the face of extraordinary upheaval.

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