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Editor's Introduction: Jewish Studies in France

Editor's Introduction: Jewish Studies in France Editor's Introduction: Jewish Studies in France Alan Astro Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Volume 14, Number 3, Spring 1996, pp. 1-4 (Article) Published by Purdue University Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.1996.0048 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/473349/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 18:28 GMT from JHU Libraries 1 Editor's Introduction EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION: JEWISH STUDIES IN FRANCE by Alan Astro Alan Astro, Associate Professor of French at Trinity Uni­ versity in San Antonio, Texas, is the author of Under­ standing Samuel Beckett (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1990) and special editor of the volume Discourses of jewish Identity in Twentieth-Century France (Yale French Studies 85 [1994]). "France is now firmly 'on the map' of Jewish studies," wrote a contributor to a recent volume on Jewish studies the world over. This issue of Shofar testifies to the vigor of research in France on Jewish subjects, as each article here takes an overview of an aspect of this multifaceted field. Alessandro Guetta's contribution speaks of the nineteenth-century French Jewish thinkers, who combined concerns from the Wissenschaft des judentums with the universalistic ideology of the French revolution to produce stirring defenses of Jewish spirituality. Charles Mopsik's article shows how the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Purdue University Press

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Editor's Introduction: Jewish Studies in France Alan Astro Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Volume 14, Number 3, Spring 1996, pp. 1-4 (Article) Published by Purdue University Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.1996.0048 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/473349/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 18:28 GMT from JHU Libraries 1 Editor's Introduction EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION: JEWISH STUDIES IN FRANCE by Alan Astro Alan Astro, Associate Professor of French at Trinity Uni­ versity in San Antonio, Texas, is the author of Under­ standing Samuel Beckett (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1990) and special editor of the volume Discourses of jewish Identity in Twentieth-Century France (Yale French Studies 85 [1994]). "France is now firmly 'on the map' of Jewish studies," wrote a contributor to a recent volume on Jewish studies the world over. This issue of Shofar testifies to the vigor of research in France on Jewish subjects, as each article here takes an overview of an aspect of this multifaceted field. Alessandro Guetta's contribution speaks of the nineteenth-century French Jewish thinkers, who combined concerns from the Wissenschaft des judentums with the universalistic ideology of the French revolution to produce stirring defenses of Jewish spirituality. Charles Mopsik's article shows how the

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