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During the course of her fieldwork in Paris, anthropologist Kimberly Arkin heard what she thought was a surprising admission. A French-born, North African Jewish (Sephardi) teenage girl laughingly told Arkin she was a racist. When asked what she meant by that, the girl responded, "It means I hate Arabs." This girl was not unique. She and other Sephardi youth in Paris insisted, again and again, that they were not French, though born in France, and that they could not imagine their Jewish future in France. Fueled by her candid and compelling informants, Arkin's analysis delves into the connections and disjunctures between Jews and Muslims, religion and secular Republicanism, race and national community, and identity and culture in post-colonial France. __Rhinestones__ argues that Sephardi youth, as both "Arabs" and "Jews," fall between categories of class, religion, and culture. Many reacted to this liminality by going beyond religion and culture to categorize their Jewishness as race, distinguishing Sephardi Jews from "Arab" Muslims, regardless of similarities they shared, while linking them to "European" Jews (Ashkenazim), regardless of their differences. But while racializing Jewi

Who reads Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic: Fashioning Jewishness in France (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture)?

Author

Kimberly A. Arkin

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804786003

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Science, Sociology

Rating

4 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14