Yale French Studies, Number 85
Subtitle: Discourses of Jewish Identity in Twentieth-Century France (Yale French Studies Series)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: June 22, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780300060157
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Jewish studies; France - History; History Of Jews; Education / Teaching; Literary Criticism; France; General; Education / General
Description: This volume presents voices from a paradoxical community: the Jews of France, long assimilated yet more expressive than ever of their particular concerns. It includes the first accounts of French survivors of death camps; effects of Jewish migration from North Africa to France; and the legacy of existentialism for constructs of Jewish identity.