Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction

Part 1 Historiography

Chapter 1 The Jews of Modern France: A Historiographical Essay

Part 2 Jewish Integration, Jewish Distinctiveness

Chapter 2 The Trial of Jacob Benjamin, Supplier to the French Army, 1792–93

Chapter 3 Reading, Writing, and Religion: The Education of Working-Class Jewish Girls in Paris, 1822–1914

Chapter 4 A Jurisprudential Quandary: Jewish Marriage in Post-Separation France

Chapter 5 Affirming Difference, Confirming Integration: New Forms of Sociability Among French Jews in the 1920s

Part 3 Jews and Politics, Jewish Politics

Chapter 6 Jews, Liberals and the Civilizing Mission in Nineteenth-Century France1

Chapter 7 Jewish Anticlericalism in Germany and France: A Transnational Polemic

Chapter 8 Shaping Children’s Lives: American Jewish Aid in Post-World War II France (1944–1948)

Chapter 9 “The French Jewish Community Speaks to You wi th One Voice”: Dissent and the Shaping of FrenchJewish Politics since World War II

Chapter 10 A Jewish-Muslim Battle on the World Stage: Constantine, Algeria 1956

Part 4 Imagining Jews, Performing Jewishness

Chapter 11 Thinking the Jew through the Turbulent Nineteenth Century: The Idea of Rachel

Chapter 12 Disunity in Death: Jewish Funerals in the Jewish Press in Mid-Nineteenth Century Paris

Chapter 13 Not as Simple as “Bonjour”: Synagogue Building in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Chapter 14 Reimagining Jewish-Muslim Relations on Screen: French-Jewish Filmmakers and the Middle Eas tConflict

Chapter 15 Defining France and Defending Israel: Romantic Nationalism and the Paradoxes of French Jewish Belonging

Index