TY - BOOK AU - Strenski,Ivan TI - Durkheim and the Jews of France T2 - Chicago studies in the history of Judaism SN - 0226777359 (electronic bk.) AV - DS135.F83 S84 1997eb U1 - 305.892/4044 21 PY - 1997/// CY - Chicago, Ill. PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Durkheim, Émile, KW - Jews KW - France KW - Intellectual life KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Anthropology KW - Cultural KW - bisacsh KW - Discrimination & Race Relations KW - Minority Studies KW - Electronic books KW - local KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Ethnic relations KW - საზოგადოებრივი მეცნიერებები KW - ეთნიკური უმცირესობების კვლევა N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-202) and index N2 - Ivan Strenski debunks the common notion that there is anything "essentially" Jewish in Durkheim's work. Seeking the Durkheim inside the real world of Jews in France rather than the imagined Jewishness inside Durkheim himself, Strenski adopts a Durkheimian approach to understanding Durkheim's thought. In so doing he shows for the first time that Durkheim's sociology (especially his sociology of religion) took form in relation to the Jewish intellectual life of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France. Strenski begins each chapter by weighing particular claims (some anti-Sem UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=35124 ER -