Author: Simon Schwarzfuchs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Author: Simon Schwarzfuchs
Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish
ISBN: 9780197100233
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Napoleon sought to limit the emancipation of French Jewry as decreed in the early years of the Revolution, yet many of the institutions that he created proved to be of enduring value to French Jewry and still exist today. Schwarzfuchs gives an in-depth analysis of all the nuances and contradictions inherent in this fateful encounter.

Author: Simon Schwarzfuchs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780838630259
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Author: Franz Kobler
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Author: Joshua Schreier
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813547946
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Exploring how Algerian Jews responded to and appropriated France's newly conceived "civilizing mission" in the mid-nineteenth century, Arabs of the Jewish Faith shows that the ideology, while rooted in French Revolutionary ideals of regeneration, enlightenment, and emancipation, actually developed as a strategic response to the challenges of controlling the unruly and highly diverse populations of Algeria's coastal cities.

Author: Maurice Samuels
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022639705X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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The revolution reconsidered -- France's Jewish star -- Universalism in Algeria -- Zola and the Dreyfus affair -- The Jew in Renoir's La grande illusion -- Sartre's "Jewish question"--Finkielkraut, Badiou, and the "new antisemitism" -- Conclusion: "Je suis juif

Author: Michael Graetz
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804725712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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This work on the history of French Jewry, follows the reshaping of Franco-Jewish identity from legal emancipation after the French Revolution, through to the creation in 1860 of the Alliance Israelite Universelle, the first international Jewish organization devoted to the struggle for Jewish rights throughout the world.

Author: Paul R. Mendes-Flohr
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195074536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 772

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The last two centuries have witnessed a radical transformation of Jewish life. Marked by such profound events as the Holocaust and the establishment of the state of Israel, Judaism's long journey through the modern age has been a complex and tumultuous one, leading many Jews to ask themselves not only where they have been and where they are going, but what it means to be a Jew in today's world. Tracing the Jewish experience in the modern period and illustrating the transformation of Jewish religion, culture, and identity from the 17th century to 1948, the updated edition of this critically acclaimed volume of primary materials remains the most complete sourcebook on modern Jewish history. Now expanded to supplement the most vital documents of the first edition, The Jew in the Modern World features hitherto unpublished and inaccessible sources concerning the Jewish experience in Eastern Europe, women in Jewish history, American Jewish life, the Holocaust, and Zionism and the nascent Jewish community in Palestine on the eve of the establishment of the State of Israel. The documents are arranged chronologically in each of eleven chapters and are meticulously and extensively annotated and cross-referenced in order to provide the student with ready access to a wide variety of issues, key historical figures, and events. Complete with some twenty useful tables detailing Jewish demographic trends, this is a unique resource for any course in Jewish history, Zionism and Israel, the Holocaust, or European and American history.

Author: Philip Guedalla
Publisher: London : G. Allen & Unwin
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: Margaret Rodenberg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1647420172
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 409

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“Rodenberg inventively uses Bonaparte’s own unfinished novel to tell the story of the despot’s rise to power, which she juxtaposes against the story of his last love affair. Told creatively and with excellent research!” —Stephanie Dray, New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of America's First Daughter and The Women of Chateau Lafayette “Beautiful and poignant.” —Allison Pataki, New York Times best-selling author of The Queen’s Fortune With its delightful adaptation of Napoleon Bonaparte’s real attempt to write romantic fiction, Finding Napoleon: A Novel offers a fresh take on Europe’s most powerful man after he’s lost everything—except his last love. A forgotten woman of history—the audacious Countess Albine—helps narrate their tale of intrigue, desire, and betrayal. After the defeated Emperor Napoleon goes into exile on tiny St. Helena Island in the remote South Atlantic, he and his lover, Albine de Montholon, plot to escape and rescue his young son. Banding together enslaved Africans, British sympathizers, a Jewish merchant, a Corsican rogue, and French followers, they confront British opposition—as well as treachery within their own ranks—with sometimes subtle, sometimes bold, but always desperate action. Amid his passions and intrigues, Napoleon finishes his real novel Clisson that he started writing as a young man. Now it's a father's message to the young son whom his enemies took from him, but how can they get it to the boy? When Napoleon and Albine break faith with one another, ambition and Albine’s husband threaten their reconciliation. To succeed, Napoleon must learn whom to trust. To survive, Albine must decide whom to betray. This elegant, richly researched novel reveals the Napoleon history conceals and the Countess Albine history has forgotten.