Bankers, Socialists and Sephardic Jews in nineteenth-century France
by
Helen M. Davies
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Emile (1800–75) and Isaac Pereire (1806–80) were pivotal and sensational figures, their lives and careers a lens through which to re-examine the history of France in the nineteenth century. Among the first generation of Jews emancipated by the French Revolution, they became significant Saint-Simonians,...