French an Jewish – Culture and the Politics of Identity in Early Twentieth-Century France

The major cultural, ideological and social changes that occured in Europe in the last century have generated widespread reassessment of European history in terms of its presuppositions, its methodologies, its directions, its emphases and its scope. This timely volume looks at the Jewish past in the spirit of reassessment, bringing the study of Jewish history into line with the trends now widely accepted in historical scholarship.