Maurice Samuels: 2 books
The Right to Difference
French Universalism and the Jews
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Universal equality is a treasured political concept in France, but recent anxiety over the country’s Muslim minority has led to an emphasis on a new form of universalism, one promoting loyalty to the nation at the expense of all ethnic and religious affiliations. This timely book offers a fresh...
Inventing the Israelite
Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
In this book, Maurice Samuels brings to light little known works of literature produced from 1830 to 1870 by the first generation of Jews born as French citizens. These writers, Samuels asserts, used fiction as a laboratory to experiment with new forms of Jewish identity relevant to the modern world....