Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Identity in 19th-Century French Fiction – Hardcover

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by Maurice Samuels (Author)

This book brings to light the first Jewish fiction in French and reveals how the first generation of Jews born as French citizens used fiction as a laboratory for experimenting with modern forms of Jewish identity.

Author Biography

Maurice Samuels is Professor of French at Yale University. He is the author of The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France (2004).

Number of Pages: 336 Dimensions: 1.2 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 07, 2009

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