Edmond Fleg and Jewish Minority Culture in Twentieth-Century France

ISBN-13: 9780367186142 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 238 str.

Sally Charnow

Opis

Edmond Fleg and Jewish Minority Culture in Twentieth-Century France, the first critical biography of the leading French writer, Edmond Fleg (1874-1963), explores his role in forging a modern French Jewish identity before and after the Second World War.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Creating the Self: French and Jewish  2. The Great War: Ecumenism in the Trenches and on the Stage  3. A Jewish Awakening in Postwar Paris: Writing Networks, Prophets, and Personal Narrative  4. Moses, Solomon, and Jesus: Biblical Legend as Modern Parable  5. My Palestine? My France.  6. Le Chant Nouveau: War, Retreat, Return  Epilogue

O autorze

Sally Debra Charnow is Professor of Modern European and Postcolonial History at Hofstra University. She brings together her interdisciplinary training in performance studies and history in her work on issues related to cultural production and politics. She is the author of Theatre, Politics and Markets in Fin-de-Siècle Paris: Staging Modernity (2005) and the editor of Artistic Expressions and the Great War, A Hundred Years On (2021). Her articles and reviews have appeared in Radical History Review, American Historical Review, French History, Modern and Contemporary France, and H-France.