by Michael Graetz (Author), Jane Marie Todd (Translator)
This major work follows the reshaping of Franco-Jewish identity from legal emancipation after the French revolution through the creation in 1860 of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, the first international Jewish organization devoted to the struggle for Jewish rights throughout the world.
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This is one of the most important works on French Jewish intellectual and cultural history to have appeared in recent years. In a deft revision of the accepted picture of French Jewry, Graetz interweaves intellectual and cultural trends and a close study of political developments to present a composite picture of a group in the process of fundamental transformation.--Aron Rodrigue, Stanford University