Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France - Hardcover

by Maurice Samuels (Author)

This book brings to light the first Jewish fiction in French and reveals how the first generation of Jews born as French citizens used fiction as a laboratory for experimenting with modern forms of Jewish identity.

Author Biography

Maurice Samuels is Professor of French at Yale University. He is the author of The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France (2004).