PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE 31: Maurice Samuels | Historian

English - December 13, 2020 22:09 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MB
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Maurice Samuels is the author of several books on 19th-century French literature and culture and Jewish Studies: The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France, which examines new forms of historical representation in post-Revolutionary France; Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France brings to light the first Jewish fiction writers in French; The Right to Difference: French Universalism and the Jews studies how French writers and thinkers have conceived of the place of Jews within the French nation from the Revolution to the present. His most recent book, The Betrayal of the Duchess, a study of France’s first antisemitic affair. A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, he has directed the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism since 2011, and is currently also serving as the chair of Yale’s Judaic Studies Program.

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