| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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The Jews and the Nation: Revolution, Emancipation, State Formation, and the Liberal Paradigm in America and France. By Frederic Cople Jaher. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. x, 295 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-691-09649-X.)

This is a thoughtful, original, and systematic comparison of the civic integration of Jews in the United States and France from the period of the American and French revolutions through the beginnings of the American republic and the Napoleonic era (1775–1815). Utilizing a variety of primary and secondary sources in English and French, as well as English translations of French sources, Jaher explains how French Jews acquired their civil rights as a result of a revolution, while American Jews acquired their civil and political rights through the evolution of American democratic principles. He also devotes attention to the responses of the two Jewish communities to the challenges and opportunities afforded them by the acquisition of national citizenship.

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