French and Jewish: Culture and the Politics of Identity in Early Twentieth Century France

Gutman, Sanford, Shofar

French and Jewish: Culture and the Politics of Identity in Early Twentieth Century France, by Nadia Malinovich. Portland: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008. 280 pp. $49.50.

Nadia Malinovich takes on some big questions that have interested French Jewish historians for at least a generation. Did Jewish particularism become as important to Franco-Judaism in the 1920s as was the universalisr ethic that had dominated French Jewish identity since the nineteenth century? And was this new particularist identity shared by native French Jewish intellectuals as well as immigrant writers and artists? Was French-Jewish identity substantively different than German-Jewish identity by …

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Publication information: Article title: French and Jewish: Culture and the Politics of Identity in Early Twentieth Century France. Contributors: Gutman, Sanford - Author. Journal title: Shofar. Volume: 28. Issue: 3 Publication date: Spring 2010. Page number: 191+. © Not available. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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