...Maurice Samuels Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 Maurice Samuels METAPHORS OF MODERNITY: PROSTITUTES, BANKERS, AND OTHER JEWS IN BALZAC'S SPLENDEURS ET MlSERES DES COURTISANES Why are the brothels of modern French literature filled with Jewish prostitutes? From Yanda...

...Dorian Bell Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 Dorian Bell BEYOND THE BOURSE: ZOLA, EMPIRE, AND THE JEWS Puis, apercevant du monde a sa gauche, deux hommes et une femme, it eut l'idee de les questionner. Mais, a son approche, la femme s'enfuit, les hommes l'ecarterent...

... been paid to philosemitism-the defense, admiration, and love of Jewswhich often accompanies its seeming opposite. 1 As the first European country to grant the Jews full civil rights in the eighteenth century, France has long stood as a beacon of philosemitism. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth...

... with trafficking in the twelfth-­century Ordo representaciones Ade, an astounding Play of Adam that trades in religion openly and undercover. When polemical contestation between Old Law and New leads to figurative encounters between Jews and Christians, their dialogue and disputations make rival claims on who...

... and showered him with f­avors, and he had sold her out. His Jewish background made the betrayal seem all the more grotesque to t­hose on the far right of the pol­itic­ al spectrum, who saw in Deutz proof that the French Revolution had made a grave error in granting the Jews civil rights. In what follows, I w­...

... and Avila went back centuries and they traveled the world: they turned to the history of Rome and of Spain, to the history of Jews and of Moors, and to the history of the perfidious English, as well as to the history of the Incas. Doctrineros constructed a world history of heresy, but with a new twist...

... and a concomitant violence against those others, especially Jews and heretics, who doubted or resisted that faith and had to be converted or suffer the consequences. Doubt, love, and violence are, in other words, inextricably knotted together. In this essay, I consider Latour’s reference to the Assumption in light...

..., admiration, and love of Jews-which often accompanies its seeming opposite. As the first European country to grant the Jews full civil rights in the eighteenth century, France has long stood as a beacon of philosemitism. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, leading statesmen, thinkers...

... in Etterbeek, and she stayed with them throughout the war (she was baptized as a Catholic during those years). Her parents managed to escape arrest and survived the German occupation (see the testimony of her father, My Jewish Book, regarding clandestine meetings of Jews during the German occupation...

... with a blatantly antihistorical sequence that one French critic3 called "jubilatoire": the spectacular killing of Hitler, Goebbels, and other Nazi leaders, carried out mostly by Jews, in a French art-house movie theater in June 1944. Some viewers waxed quite indignant at this counterfactual endingone French...

... openness, to your queries about a disturbing New York incident by offering to take you and Richard Philcox through the section of Brooklyn known as Crown Heights. This neighborhood was the scene of interracial riots in 1991 between Blacks and Jews after a Hasidic driver accidentally killed a Guyanese-born...

... are endemic, because they result from the Koran") (Dubarry 93). Finally, Dubarry concludes his sweeping indictment aof the depraved and luxurious East by observing that "Les Juifs, portes la sensualite, les J uifs incorrigiblement sensuels, furent de bonne heure de desordonnes sexuels" ("The Jews, inclined...

... century, on both the left and the right, reactions to the Revolution and the industrial development of France targeted certain groups seen as the "maitres de l'economie franc;aise." Specific groups became common targets. Foremost among them were Jews, accused of being a financial elite intent...

... alone in the Warsaw ghetto, he remembers: "I said to myself: I'm the last Jew. I'll wait for the morning, and for the Germans." This heartrending statement is followed by a cut to shot typical of Lanzmann's film: a close-up of a locomotive moving down the tracks that eventually takes up roughly 90...

... and Witness (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000). See also H. Stuart Hughes, "The Silver Age of Italian Jews (1924-1974 in Prisoners of Hope (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard UP, 1983), Ruth Angress, "Primo Levi in English," Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual 3 (1986): 317-330, Risa Sodi, "The Memory...

... half of the seventeenth century, when the Holy Inquisition of New Spain had returned to its "floxedad antigua" (old laziness) once the embers of the autos-da-fe that were the culmination of the persecution of practicing Jews during the "Complicidad Grande" (Great Complicity) had died (Inquisicion).l...

... European themes, handle them without superstition, with an irreverence which can have, and already does have, fortunate consequences" (Labyrinths, p. 184).5 Borges compares the situation of Argentines (of Latin Americans in general) to that of Jews with respect to Western culture, or Irish writers...

... D. Roosevelt. In that interview, the Polish resistance fighter describes to the American president not only the state of affairs in occupied Poland but also, especially, what was happening to Jews in Hitler's Europe, little known at the time. 7. Franklin invokes Flaubert's statement "Madame Bovary...

.... For Levi, the Holocaust is the atrocious epitome of the incomprehensible, and as important, of secrecy. As proof, Levi sets before his reader the example of Chaim Rumkowski for her response. Chaim Rumkowski, as we shall see, was an irresponsible man, a man irresponsible to his "subjects," the Jews...

... The Trustees of Columbia University INTERVIEW WITH HENRY Rousso regarding its legacies. The state was put under pressure by various groups, particularly by associations striving for the recognition of crimes that had been committed against Jews by the Vichy Regime. This emergence of the impact of public...