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The Jews of the Republic: A Political History of State Jews in France from Gambetta to Vichy (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C)
The Jews of the Republic A Political History of State Jews in France from Gambetta to Vichy - Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C Author:Pierre Birnbaum This book provides a highly original account of the Franco-Jewish political and administrative elite?generals, politicians, judges, magistrates, and prefects?from the final decades of the nineteenth century to the Vichy regime. — United by an extensive network of family relations and a fierce devotion to secular republicanism, these Jews of State... more » (the author?s 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.« less