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Lisa M. Leff, « L'Histoire des Juifs de France vue des États-Unis », Archives Juives, ID : 10670/1.fyjzj3
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American Jews contribute in disproportionate numbers to the scholarly field of French Jewish history : this article explores some possible reasons for this. The context of the 1960s, in which American Jews began to enter the historical profession, was particularly important. At that moment, with the Civil Rights movement and the rise of ethnic studies in the Academy, difference (and specifically, racial difference) was being valorized and American Jews were questioning their own path of assimilation, using France as a screen upon which to project questions about their own history.