Jeanne (Jane) Oulman Bensaude belonged to a Parisian Jewish upper middle class family related to the world of finance and fully involved in the cultural and political life of Paris in the second half of the nineteenth century. In Memorie Jane recalls the family environment, travels, readings, living rooms, meetings with poets and writers, musicians and politicians. She narrates her passion for music and writing, to which she dedicated herself in Lisbon, where she lived after the marriage to Alfredo Bensaude. The story of a development, of a life divided between France and Portugal, Jane's autobiography offers many reasons of interest: from within the Oulman family life, in the education of sons and daughters, in observance of the rites, in the interweaving of family affairs with the history of France, it represents a rare document of the process of assimilation of French Judaism to the values of the nation.
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom - ORCID: 0000-0002-5550-7154
Book Title
Memorie
Editors
Luisa Levi d'Ancona Modena
Authors
Jane Oulman Bensaude
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
266
Publication Year
2016
Copyright Information
© 2016 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6655-806-4
ISBN Print
978-88-6655-805-7
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6655-806-4
eISBN (epub)
978-88-6655-807-1
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-375-6
Series Title
Fonti storiche e letterarie – Edizioni cartacee e digitali
Series ISSN
2704-5994
Series E-ISSN
2704-6001