LEADER 05619nam 22012735 450 001 9910783022603321 005 20231101211352.0 010 $a1-282-35695-X 010 $a9786612356957 010 $a0-520-92935-7 010 $a1-59734-780-9 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520929357 035 $a(CKB)1000000000005673 035 $a(EBL)223471 035 $a(OCoLC)475928037 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000213367 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11912187 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000213367 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10150917 035 $a(PQKB)11426015 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000056141 035 $a(OCoLC)56029756 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC223471 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30432 035 $a(DE-B1597)520827 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520929357 035 $a(dli)HEB06679 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000007094913 035 $a(PPN)195003799 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000005673 100 $a20200424h20032003 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aObstinate Hebrews $eRepresentations of Jews in France, 1715-1815 /$fRonald Schechter 210 1$aBerkeley, CA :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[2003] 210 4$dİ2003 215 $a1 online resource (346 p.) 225 0 $aStudies on the History of Society and Culture ;$v49 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-23557-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 263-317) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. A Nation within the Nation?: The Jews of Old Regime France --$t2. Jews and Philosophes --$t3. Jews and Citizens --$t4. Contrapuntal Readings: Jewish Self-Representation in Prerevolutionary France --$t5. Constituting Differences: The French Revolution and the Jews --$t6. Familiar Strangers: Napoleon and the Jews --$tConclusion: Jews and Other "Others" --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aEnlightenment writers, revolutionaries, and even Napoleon discussed and wrote about France's tiny Jewish population at great length. Why was there so much thinking about Jews when they were a minority of less than one percent and had little economic and virtually no political power? In this unusually wide-ranging study of representations of Jews in eighteenth-century France-both by Gentiles and Jews themselves-Ronald Schechter offers fresh perspectives on the Enlightenment and French Revolution, on Jewish history, and on the nature of racism and intolerance. Informed by the latest historical scholarship and by the insights of cultural theory, Obstinate Hebrews is a fascinating tale of cultural appropriation cast in the light of modern society's preoccupation with the "other." Schechter argues that the French paid attention to the Jews because thinking about the Jews helped them reflect on general issues of the day. These included the role of tradition in religion, the perfectibility of human nature, national identity, and the nature of citizenship. In a conclusion comparing and contrasting the "Jewish question" in France with discourses about women, blacks, and Native Americans, Schechter provocatively widens his inquiry, calling for a more historically precise approach to these important questions of difference. 410 0$aStudies on the history of society and culture ;$v49. 410 0$aS. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies. 606 $aJews$zFrance$xSocial conditions$y18th century 606 $aFrench literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aJews in literature 606 $aPublic opinion$zFrance$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aPublic opinion$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aJews$xPublic opinion 606 $aJews$zFrance$xIdentity 607 $aFrance$xEthnic relations 610 $aacculturation. 610 $aalienation. 610 $aantisemitism. 610 $aassimilation. 610 $abelonging. 610 $acitizenship. 610 $acultural appropriation. 610 $acultural theory. 610 $adiscrimination. 610 $aenlightenment. 610 $aeurope. 610 $aexile. 610 $afeminism. 610 $afrance. 610 $afrench history. 610 $afrench jews. 610 $afrench revolution. 610 $agender. 610 $ahomeland. 610 $ahuman nature. 610 $aindigenous people. 610 $aintolerance. 610 $ajewish history. 610 $ajewish population. 610 $ajudaica. 610 $ajudaism. 610 $anational identity. 610 $anative americans. 610 $anonfiction. 610 $aothering. 610 $apolitics. 610 $aprejudice. 610 $aracism. 610 $areligion. 610 $areligious difference. 610 $asocial body. 610 $asocial issues. 610 $atradition. 615 0$aJews$xSocial conditions 615 0$aFrench literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aJews in literature. 615 0$aPublic opinion$xHistory 615 0$aPublic opinion$xHistory 615 0$aJews$xPublic opinion. 615 0$aJews$xIdentity. 676 $a305.892/4044/09033 700 $aSchechter$b Ronald$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01016628 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783022603321 996 $aObstinate Hebrews$92379518 997 $aUNINA