Jewish Ideas of France: Migration, Diaspora, and Empire [Hardcover]

Introduction: The Varied Jewish Ideas of France??Part I: Identities??1. They Are the Smart Set: Female Society Portraiture and Jewish Class Aspirations in Nineteenth-Century France? 2.?Les angles morts de luniversalisme: Whiteness and Jewishness in Adolphe Cr?mieuxs Legal Writings? 3. Fascism and Antifascism: North African Jews and French Republican Values in the 1930s? 4. Beyond a Jewish Colonial Fracture: Assimilation and Persecution in Roger Ikor and Albert Memmis 1955 Novels? 5. French Jewry Confronts the Separation of Church and State: Challenges and Opportunities? 6. Franco-Judaism: Diverse, in Flux, and Transnational??Part II: Movements??7. Defying the Soviet Regime, Embracing the French Republic: Jewish-Russian ?migr?s Publishing Activities in Interwar France? 8. Undesirables in France: Ilse Bing, Luise Straus-Ernst, and German-Jewish Women During the Second World War? 9. Mediterranean Crossings: Egyptian Jews and France? 10. Mediating Migration, Brokering Belonging: The Moroccan Alliance Isra?lite Universelle Teachers Union, 19431964? 11. The Politics of the Arab-Jew: Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Futures in North African Jewish Writing of the 1980s

This innovative exploration of Jewish experiences in France and the Francophone world through nuanced questions and representations offers an intertwining of perspectives that challenge geographical, chronological, and theoretical boundaries.

Engaging the transnational, it brings together studies highlighting the importance of migration, diaspora, identity, and empire for Jewish communities in metropolitan France and beyond. New and emerging scholars are invited into conversation with established thinkers to capture the present and future of French, Francophone, and Jewish Studies. Because identities are layered and multifaceted, the multidisciplinary studies in this volume are intended to illu