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A richly detailed history of the Bacris and the Busnachs, two
renowned Jewish families whose influence and reputation shook the
capitals of Europe and America At the height of the Napoleonic
Wars, the Bacri brothers and their nephew, Naphtali Busnach, were
perhaps the most notorious Jews in the Mediterranean. Based in the
strategic port of Algiers, their interconnected families traded in
raw goods and luxury items, brokered diplomatic relations with the
Ottomans, and lent vital capital to warring nations. For the
French, British, and Americans, who competed fiercely for access to
trade and influence in the region, there was no getting around the
Bacris and the Busnachs. The Kings of Algiers traces the rise and
fall of these two trading families over four tumultuous decades in
the nineteenth century. In this panoramic book, Julie Kalman
restores their story—and Jewish history more broadly—to the
histories of trade, corsairing, and high-stakes diplomacy in the
Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath. Jacob
Bacri dined with Napoleon himself. Thomas Jefferson, James Madison,
and Horatio Nelson considered strategies to circumvent the
Bacris’ influence. As the families’ ambitions grew, so did the
perils, from imprisonment and assassination to fraud and family
collapse. The Kings of Algiers brings vividly to life an age of
competitive imperialism and nascent nationalism and demonstrates
how people and events on the periphery shaped perceptions and
decisions in the distant metropoles of the world’s great nations.
Orientalizing the Jew shows how French travelers depicted Jews in
the Orient and then brought these ideas home to orientalize Jews
living in their homeland during the 19th century. Julie Kalman
draws on narratives, personal and diplomatic correspondence,
novels, and plays to show how the "Jews of the East" featured
prominently in the minds of the French and how they challenged
ideas of the familiar and the exotic. Portraits of the Jewish
community in Jerusalem, romanticized Jewish artists, and the
wealthy Sephardi families of Algiers come to life. These accounts
incite a necessary conversation about Jewish history, the history
of anti-Jewish discourses, French history, and theories of
Orientalism in order to broaden understandings about Jews of the
day.
This book uses the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), as an analytical
entry point to understand and illuminate post-War Europe and the
drive to create an identity that can legitimise the European
project in its broadest sense. The ESC presents an idealised vision
of Europe, and this has long existed in a strained relationship
with reality. While the trajectory of post-war European integration
is a high-profile topic, we believe that the ESC offers a unique
and innovative way to think about the role of culture in the
history of post-War European integration and tensions between the
ideal and reality of European unity. Through the series of case
studies that make up the chapters in this book, analysis brings
these interlinked tensions to light, exploring the roles of culture
and identity, alongside and a productive conversation with the
political and economic projects of post-war European integration.
This book uses the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), as an analytical
entry point to understand and illuminate post-War Europe and the
drive to create an identity that can legitimise the European
project in its broadest sense. The ESC presents an idealised vision
of Europe, and this has long existed in a strained relationship
with reality. While the trajectory of post-war European integration
is a high-profile topic, we believe that the ESC offers a unique
and innovative way to think about the role of culture in the
history of post-War European integration and tensions between the
ideal and reality of European unity. Through the series of case
studies that make up the chapters in this book, analysis brings
these interlinked tensions to light, exploring the roles of culture
and identity, alongside and a productive conversation with the
political and economic projects of post-war European integration.
Orientalizing the Jew shows how French travelers depicted Jews in
the Orient and then brought these ideas home to orientalize Jews
living in their homeland during the 19th century. Julie Kalman
draws on narratives, personal and diplomatic correspondence,
novels, and plays to show how the "Jews of the East" featured
prominently in the minds of the French and how they challenged
ideas of the familiar and the exotic. Portraits of the Jewish
community in Jerusalem, romanticized Jewish artists, and the
wealthy Sephardi families of Algiers come to life. These accounts
incite a necessary conversation about Jewish history, the history
of anti-Jewish discourses, French history, and theories of
Orientalism in order to broaden understandings about Jews of the
day.
Rethinking Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France is a history
of the stories the French told about the Jews in their midst during
the early nineteenth century. Using a novel cultural analysis that
brings together pamphlets, newspaper articles, novels, and works of
art, Julie Kalman focuses on the period that historians have
explored the least, encompassing the years 1815 1848. Kalman shows
that there were significant discussions surrounding France s Jewish
population taking place during this period and argues that these
discussions are central to our understanding of the history of the
Jew s place in France. These stories also allow us to reflect on
core questions of French history during this period, a time when
the French were questioning the fundamental nature of their own
identity.
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