L'image des Juifs séférades en France au XIXe siècle
The Sephardic paradigm elaborated in the myth of the “Golden Age in medieval Spain” is also the paradigm of the virtual encounter between the two principal Diasporas of Jews. Nineteenth-century French Jewish historians perpetuated the myth about Sephardic superiority ; however, they did not referenc...
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| Fformat: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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2009
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Crynodeb: | The Sephardic paradigm elaborated in the myth of the “Golden Age in medieval Spain” is also the paradigm of the virtual encounter between the two principal Diasporas of Jews. Nineteenth-century French Jewish historians perpetuated the myth about Sephardic superiority ; however, they did not reference Jews living in Arab-Muslim countries. After the Damas Affair in 1840, the French Jewish press evoked the interactions between Algerian Jews and French Jews during the colonial conquest. These newspapers asserted the superiority of Western European Jews over those from Muslim countries because of the « benefits of Western civilization ». The reversal of the Sephardic paradigm is located in the rejection of « rabbinism ». This belief, previously attributed to European rabbis, was mapped onto Sephardic rabbis who were stigmatized because of the supposed immobility and backwardness of the Orient. Therefore, at that time, a large number of texts referred to European Jews’ perceptions about the inferiority of Jews from Muslim countries. |
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