This book provides a highly original account of the Franco-Jewish political and administrative elites term to distinguish them from their predecessors, court Jews, who were more oriented toward the world of business and banking) formed a group that perpetuated itself over three generations. The book dissolves the supposedly marked dichotomy between assimilated and unassimilated Jews in French society by showing how this Franco-Jewish elite was simultaneously active at the highest levels of French professional and administrative life and deeply involved in Jewish cultural life.
Pages
510
Release
March 18, 1992
ISBN 13
9782020205054
Les Fous De La Republique: Histoire Politique Des Juifs D'etat De Gambetta A Vichy (Points. Histoire) (French Edition)
This book provides a highly original account of the Franco-Jewish political and administrative elites term to distinguish them from their predecessors, court Jews, who were more oriented toward the world of business and banking) formed a group that perpetuated itself over three generations. The book dissolves the supposedly marked dichotomy between assimilated and unassimilated Jews in French society by showing how this Franco-Jewish elite was simultaneously active at the highest levels of French professional and administrative life and deeply involved in Jewish cultural life.