Articles

 

  • “The best books on Jews in modern France”, Shepherd.com (August, 2021)

  • “Conspiracy Theories, Class Tension, Political Intrigue: Lessons From France’s Mishandling of a 19th Century Cholera Outbreak”, Opinion piece for Time on the cholera epidemic of 1832 and its lessons for today.

  • "The Question of Assimilation in French Jewish Historiography,"
    French Historical Studies 43:1 (February, 2020), 29-46. 

  • “Historicizing French Universalism:  The Case of Jewish Emancipation," Revisioning French Culture.  Edited by Andrew Sobanet. Liverpool:  Liverpool University Press, 2019, 31-44.

  • “Literature and the Study of Antisemitism," American Historical Review 123: 4 (October, 2018), 1223-1233.   

  • “Proust et le philosémitisme,” Du Côté de chez Swann ou le cosmopolitisme d’un roman français.  Edited by Antoine Compagnon and Nathalie Mauriac Dyer.  Paris:  Honoré Champion, 2016, 205-218

  • “Alain Badiou and Antisemitism.”  Being Contemporary.  Edited by Lia Brozgal and Sarah Kippur.  Liverpool:  University of Liverpool Press, 2016, 106-122.

  • “Antisemitism and the Return of Universalism in Contemporary France.”  Anti-Judiasm, Antisemitism, De-legitimizing Israel.  Edited by Robert Wistrich.  Lincoln, NE:  University of Nebraska Press, 2016, 165-175.

  • “Reviewing Across Disciplines,” H-France Salon in H-France (on-line), Vol. 7 (2015), Issue 20, 5 pages.

  • “Proust, Jews, and the Arts.”  Proust and the Arts.  Edited by Christie McDonald and François Proulx.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2015, 223-231. 

  • “Les Juifs et la construction de l’identité française, de Balzac à Proust.”  French Global:  Une nouvelle perspective sur l’histoire littéraire.  Paris:  Garnier, 2014, 601-614.  [French translation of below.]

  • “Baudelaire’s Boulevard Spectacle:  Seeing Through ‘Les Yeux des pauvres.’” Yale French Studies 125 & 126 (2014), 167-182.

  • “Philosemitism and the mission civilisatrice in  Gautier’s La Juive de Constantine.”  French Forum 38:1-2 (2013), 19-34.  

  • “Introduction” to Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature:  A Reader.  Eds. Jonathan Hess, Maurice Samuels, and Nadia Valman.  Stanford:  Stanford University Press, 2013, 1-21. [Co-authored with Jonathan Hess and Nadia Valman.]

  • "Zola's Philosemitism:  From L'Argent to Vérité.”  Romanic Review 102: 3-4 (Jan 2013), 503-519.

  • “Renoir’s The Grand Illusion and the ‘Jewish Question’,” in Lawrence Baron, ed., The Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema.  Brandeis University Press, 2011, 40-49.  [Abridged reprint of below]

  • “France.”  The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism.  Ed. Pericles Lewis.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2011, 13-32.

  • “Trauma on the Boulevard,” Romanic Review, 101:1-2 (Jan-Mar 2010), 133-140.

  • “Eugénie Foa.” Dictionnaire des femmes créatrices.  Ed. Dominique Jullien.  Paris:  Des Femmes, 2010 

  • “Introduction à Mémoires d’un colporteur juif écrits par lui-même par Ben-Lévi,” Les Cahiers du Judaïsme 29 (Juin, 2010), 27-31.

  • “Spektakel [Spectacle].”  Arsen bis Zucker Flaubert-Wörterbuch.  Eds. Barbara Vinken and Cornelia Wild.  Berlin:  Merve Verlag, 2010, 246-251.

  • “Jews and the Construction of French Identity From Balzac To Proust.”  French Global:  A New Approach to Literary History.  Eds. Christie McDonald and Susan Suleiman.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 2010, 404-418.

  • “David Schornstein and the Rise of Jewish Historical Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France.”  Jewish Social Studies 14: 3 (Spring/Summer 2008), 38-59. 

  • “Jews, Modernity, and the Fiction of Ben-Lévi,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 34: 3&4 (Spring/Summer 2006), 287-302.

  • “Regarding the Crimean War:  History, Spectacle, Modernity.” Dix-neuf 6 (April, 2006), 16 pp.

  • “Metaphors of Modernity:  Prostitutes, Bankers, and Other Jews in Balzac’s Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes.” Romanic Review 97: 2 (March 2006), 169-184.

  •  “Renoir’s La Grande Illusion and the ‘Jewish Question.’”  Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques 32: 1 (Spring 2006), 165-192.

  • “Stendhal,”  The Encyclopedia of Modern  Europe, 1789-1914.  Eds. John Merriman and Jay Winter.  New York:  Scribner’s Sons, 2006. 

  • Introduction to and translation of  “Memoirs of a Jewish Peddler,” by Ben-Lévi.  Maggid:  A Journal of Jewish Literature 2 (2005), 279-299.

  • “The Emperor and the Jews.” Judaism 213-214: 54 (Winter-Spring 2005), 34-45.

  • “The Visual.” The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought.  Ed. Lawrence Kritzman.  New York:  Columbia UP, 2005, 352-355.

  • “Aesthetic Theories.”  The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought.  Ed. Lawrence Kritzman.  New York:  Columbia UP, 2005, 134-136.

  • “Introduction.”  Bohemians of the Latin Quarter by Henri Murger.  Trans. Ellen Marriage and John Selwyn.  Philadelphia:  U of Pennsylvania P, 2004, vii-xvi.  

  •  “Between Word and Image.”  The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader.  Eds. Vanessa Schwartz and Jeannene Przyblyski.  New York:  Routledge, 2004, 238-249.

  • “Illustrated Historiography and the Image of the Past in Nineteenth-Century France.”  French Historical Studies,Vol. 26, No. 2 (Spring 2003), 253-280.  

  • “Realizing the Past:  History and Spectacle in Balzac’s Adieu.” Representations 79 (Summer 2002), 82-99.

  • “L’Érotique de l’Histoire:  La Vendetta et l’image de Napoléon au XIXe siècle.” L’Érotique balzacienne.  Eds.  Lucienne Frappier-Mazur and Jean-Marie Roulin.  Paris:  Sedes, 2001, 105-116.  

  • “Drôles d’oiseaux:  Le Muséum d’histoire naturelle et les langues de l’histoire au XIXe siècle.” Langues du XIXe siècle.  Eds. Graham Falconer, Andrew Oliver, and Dorothy Speirs.  Toronto:  Centre d’Études Romantiques Joseph Sablé, 1998, 107-121.