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Publication Date: January 2007
Publisher: Association for Jewish Studies; Association for Jewish Studies
Author(s): Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall; Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions
Keywords: History; Judaic Studies; Tolerance; Antisemitism
Type: Report
Abstract:
The author writes about her doctoral thesis, a biography of French Revolution-era Catholic priest Henir Gregoire. She discusses some of the advantages of the biographical approach to history, as well as some of the advantages to studying certain non-Jewish figures in order better to understand Jewish history.