Inventing the Israelite

Maurice Samuels

earliest edition we have, 2009 Stanford University Press, 2009

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

"In this book, Maurice Samuels brings to light a series of little-known works of literature produced from 1830 to 1870 by the first generation of Jews born as French citizens. These writers, Samuels asserts, used fiction as a laboratory to experiment with new forms of Jewish identity relevant to the modern world. In their stories and novels, they responded to the stereotypical depictions of Jews in French culture whi...

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Inventing the Israelite edition · 2010 · Stanford University Press · 336 pages · 9780804763844
Inventing the Israelite edition · 2009 · Stanford University Press · 9780804773423

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