Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic
Subtitle: Fashioning Jewishness in France
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780804786003
Subjects: Jews, france; Sephardim; Jews, identity; Nationalism, france; France, ethnic relations
Description: Between 2003 and 2005, French-born North African Jewish (Sephardi) youth in Paris repeatedly told anthropologist Kimberly Arkin that they were not French and could not to imagine a Jewish future in France. Why? This questions fuels Arkin's analysis of the connections and disjunctures between Jews and Muslims, religion and secular Republicanism, race and national community, identity and culture in post-colonial France.