The Jews of Modern France: Volume 1

by Paula E. Hyman

Book Overview

The Jews of Modern France explores the endlessly complex encounter of France and its Jews from just before the Revolution to the eve of the twenty-first century. In the late eighteenth century, some forty thousand Jews lived in scattered communities on the peripheries of the French state, not considered French by others or by themselves. Two hundred years later, in 1989, France celebrated the anniversary of the Revolution with the largest, most vital...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520209257
• ISBN13: 9780520209251
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"