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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806898803321

Autore

Mandel Maud <1967->

Titolo

Muslims and Jews in France : history of a conflict / / Maud S. Mandel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, New Jersey ; ; Oxfordshire, England : , : Princeton University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-691-17350-8

1-4008-4858-X

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Disciplina

305.6/970944

Soggetti

Muslims - France - Social conditions - 20th century

Muslims - France - Social conditions - 21st century

Jews - France - Social conditions - 20th century

Jews - France - Social conditions - 21st century

Muslims - Cultural assimilation - France

Jews - Cultural assimilation - France

Social integration - France

France Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Colonial Policies, Middle Eastern War, and City Spaces -- 2. Decolonization and Migration -- 3. Encounters in the Metropole -- 4. The 1967 War and the Forging of Political Community -- 5. Palestine in France -- 6. Particularism versus Pluriculturalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book traces the global, national, and local origins of the conflict between Muslims and Jews in France, challenging the belief that rising anti-Semitism in France is rooted solely in the unfolding crisis in Israel and Palestine. Maud Mandel shows how the conflict in fact emerged from processes internal to French society itself even as it was shaped by affairs elsewhere, particularly in North Africa during the era of decolonization. Mandel examines moments in which conflicts between



Muslims and Jews became a matter of concern to French police, the media, and an array of self-appointed spokesmen from both communities: Israel's War of Independence in 1948, France's decolonization of North Africa, the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the 1968 student riots, and François Mitterrand's experiments with multiculturalism in the 1980's. She takes an in-depth, on-the-ground look at interethnic relations in Marseille, which is home to the country's largest Muslim and Jewish populations outside of Paris. She reveals how Muslims and Jews in France have related to each other in diverse ways throughout this history--as former residents of French North Africa, as immigrants competing for limited resources, as employers and employees, as victims of racist aggression, as religious minorities in a secularizing state, and as French citizens. In Muslims and Jews in France, Mandel traces the way these multiple, complex interactions have been overshadowed and obscured by a reductionist narrative of Muslim-Jewish polarization.