About the Author
Frances Malino is Sophia Moses Robinson Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Wellesley College. She has written numerous books and articles on the history of European Jews, including, with David Sorkin, From East and West: Jews in a Changing Europe 1750-1870 (Blackwell, 1990).
Features
* Provides the first biographical assessment of this exotic figure in Jewish history.
* Offers an unusual perspective on one of the key period of French history.
* Challenges our understanding of the nature of Jewish emancipation.
* Draws on a wide range of published and unpublished sources.
* Provides the first biographical assessment of this exotic figure in Jewish history.
* Offers an unusual perspective on one of the key period of French history.
* Challenges our understanding of the nature of Jewish emancipation.
* Draws on a wide range of published and unpublished sources.
