Lucille Cairns. Francophone Jewish Writers: Imagining Israel. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2015 (original) (raw)

Lucille Cairns's "Francophone Jewish Writers: Imagining Israel" examines how twenty-seven Jewish authors, who write in French, represent Israel as both a cultural trope and an emotional affect between 1965 and 2012. The study provides an objective exploration of the varying perceptions of Israel from the perspectives of Jewish authors of diverse backgrounds and the non-Jewish francophone community, highlighting the influence of political dynamics in France and Israel. Cairns’s work fills a critical gap in discussions of French-Israeli relations by analyzing both complicity and anti-Israeli sentiments prevalent in French society, while also inviting further dialogue on literary and historical narratives.