Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone World [Paperback]

With interdisciplinary analyses of texts whose origins span the diversity of the Jewish and Muslim traditions, the provocative essays collected in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone World offer startling insights into the meaning of the volatile history of this conflict in the Francophone world.

In France and the Francophone world, the hostilities of the on-going Israeli-Palestinian conflict are consistently reenacted in cultural clashes between the large Muslim and Jewish populations within France and throughout the Francophone Diaspora. The notable scholars appearing in this collection interrogate the complex history of this conflict  from the beginnings of Zionism in 1897 to the first and second Intifada of 1987 and 2000  and give unique perspectives culled from a diverse range of literary, philosophical, historical, and psychoanalytic frameworks. An important and unique volume, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone World, will shed new light for the reader on the dense ideological antagonisms at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and will surely be celebrated as an invaluable resource for scholars, students, and teachers alike.

Acknowledgments. Introduction: France and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller. Part I: Alternative History of Zionism and the Jewish Question (1914-1950).1. Tracing the Shadow of Palestine: The Zionist-Arab Conflict and Jewish-Muslim Relations in France, 1914-1945. Ethan Katz. 2. The Paradoxes of Zionism in the Work of Albert Cohen. Philippe Zard. 3.  One Nation (In)divisible?: Sartre and the Jewish Question. Lawrence R. Schehr. Part II: Francophone Literature and Cinema on the Conflict (1957-2000).4. Slimane Bena?ssa or the Voice of Dissidence. Cyril Aslanov. 5. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in France: A Conflict in Search oflcM