Inventing the Israelite
Subtitle: Jewish fiction in nineteenth-century France
By: Maurice Samuels.
Series: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture; Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804763844
Subjects: French fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism; French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Judaism and literature -- France -- History -- 19th century; Jews in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : out of the archive; title: Romantic exoticism : Eugénie Foa and the dilemmas of assimilation; title: Between realism and idealism : Ben-Lévi and the reformist impulse; title: A conservative renegade : Ben Baruch and neo-orthodoxy; title: Village tales : Alexandre Weill and mosaic monotheism; title: Ghetto fiction : Daniel Stauben, David Schornstein, and the uses of the Jewish past; title: Conclusion : Proust's progenitors.