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The controversial question of “French Jewish literature”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Clara Lévy*
Affiliation:
Department of Social Sciences, Université Nancy 2, Nancy, France
Cherry Schecker
Affiliation:
Department of Social Sciences, Université Nancy 2, Nancy, France
*

Abstract

Is there is specific Jewish literature in France? The study of Jewish authors and their writing is not sufficient grounds to indicate that such a group exists as a sociohistoriacal entity; that their existence is real and not merely nominal. The question of the existence of Jewish literature — not to be confused with Jewish writing — is a central preoccupation of the community press, in which preferred answers are formulated with reference to an organised group of artists rather than in terms of artistic expression. We will attempt to show how and by what devices the position adopted by the press in question, often lacking in coherence and sufficient justification, has influenced that adopted by certain writers and academics.

Type
Special Section: The Autonomy of Minority Literature
Copyright
Copyright © 2012 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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