Title Inventing the Israelite : Jewish fiction in nineteenth-century France / Maurice Samuels.

Publication Info.	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2010]
	©2010

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Description	1 online resource (ix, 323 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
	Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-314) and index.
Contents	Introduction : out of the archive -- Romantic exoticism : Eugénie Foa and the dilemmas of assimilation -- Between realism and idealism : Ben-Lévi and the reformist impulse -- A conservative renegade : Ben Baruch and neo-orthodoxy -- Village tales : Alexandre Weill and mosaic monotheism -- Ghetto fiction : Daniel Stauben, David Schornstein, and the uses of the Jewish past -- Conclusion : Proust's progenitors.
Summary	This text focuses on the works of literature produced from 1830 to 1870 by the first generation of Jews born as French citizens. The book asserts that these writers used fiction as a laboratory to experiment with new forms of Jewish identity relevant to the modern world.
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Subject	French fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
	French fiction -- Jewish authors.
	French fiction.
	French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Judaism and literature -- France -- History -- 19th century.
	Judaism and literature.
	France.
	History.
	Jews in literature.
	Jews in literature.
Chronological Term	1800 - 1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Samuels, Maurice. Inventing the Israelite. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010 9780804763844 (DLC) 2009023661 (OCoLC)396198104
ISBN	9780804773423 (electronic book)
	0804773424 (electronic book)
	0804763844 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	9780804763844 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	9780804763844 (cloth ; alkaline paper)

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