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Edmond Fleg and Jewish Minority Culture in Twentieth-Century France

Edmond Fleg and Jewish Minority Culture in Twentieth-Century France

Paperback

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of France

Biographies GeneralFrench History

ISBN10: 1032036745
ISBN13: 9781032036748
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 9 2023
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

Through his writings - plays, novels, poems, and essays based on Jewish and Christian texts - Fleg fashioned a minority identity within the context of French Third Republic universalism. At the heart of his work we find a radical ecumenism, a rejection of exclusive and homogenous nationalism, and a deep understanding of the necessity of supporting vibrant minority subcultures within the context of a liberal democratic republic. This account is both individual and social, pointing to the ways in which Fleg acted within the possibilities and constraints of his milieu and used his writing to engage with and shape the discursive fabric of twentieth-century French culture.

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