Inventing the Israelite : Jewish fiction in nineteenth-century France

Publication Data

• Title Inventing the Israelite : Jewish fiction in nineteenth-century France
• Author Maurice Samuels
• Publisher Stanford University Press
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location Stanford, Calif.
• Language English

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.

Topics

• French fiction :: Jewish authors :: History and criticism
• French fiction :: 19th century :: History and criticism
• Judaism and literature :: France :: History :: 19th century
• Jews in literature

Inventing the Israelite : Jewish fiction in nineteenth-century France by Maurice Samuels. ISBN 9780804763844. Published by Stanford University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.