Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-314) and index. - Introduction : out of the archive -- Romantic exoticism : Eugénie Foa and the dilemmas of assimilation -- Between realism and idealism : Ben-Lévi and the reformist impulse -- A conservative renegade : Ben Baruch and neo-orthodoxy -- Village tales : Alexandre Weill and mosaic monotheism -- Ghetto fiction : Daniel Stauben, David Schornstein, and the uses of the Jewish past -- Conclusion : Proust's progenitors