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Coverage: 19th century Coverage: France Coverage: France Publisher: Wayne State University Press Subject: Judaism--France--History--19th century Subject: Judaism--France--History--19th century Subject: Judaism--France--History--19th century Subject: Judaism--France--History--19th century Date: 2018 Content Type: WSUebook Collection: Wayne State University eBooks Collection: Wayne State University eBooks-
The shaping of Jewish identity in nineteenth-century France
Nineteenth-century French Jewry was a community struggling to meet the challenges of emancipation and modernity. This struggle, with its origins in the founding of the French nation, constitutes the core of modern Jewish identity. With the Revolution of 1789 came the collapse of the social, political, and philosophical foundations of exclusiveness, forcing French society and the Jews to come to terms with the meaning of emancipation. Over time, the enormous challenge that emancipation posed for …