The Sephardic Jews of Bordeaux: Assimilation and Emancipation in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France

by Frances Malino

Book Overview

Sephardim of Bordeaux--the first in Europe to be recognized as a Jewish community

This book focuses on a small community of French Jews, the first in Europe to encounter the requirements of an emerging nation-state and to be recognized by that state as full and equal citizens. The Sephardim of Bordeaux were typical of neither the majority of the Jews of France nor those of Western Europe. They had entered France as Catholics;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817350780
• ISBN13: 9780817350789
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.4"