Inventing the Israelite : Jewish fiction in nineteenth-century France /

Inventing the Israelite : Jewish fiction in nineteenth-century France /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Samuels, Maurice
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2010]
Series:Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : out of the archive
  • Romantic exoticism : Eugénie Foa and the dilemmas of assimilation
  • Between realism and idealism : Ben-Lévi and the reformist impulse
  • A conservative renegade : Ben Baruch and neo-orthodoxy
  • Village tales : Alexandre Weill and mosaic monotheism
  • Ghetto fiction : Daniel Stauben, David Schornstein, and the uses of the Jewish past
  • Conclusion : Proust's progenitors.