ABSTRACT
The post-World War II literatures of Jewish men, of French women, and of francophone women have all received critical attention within the discipline. The chapter identifies the key preoccupations of forty-five primary texts by Jewish women published between 1945 and 2007. While the francophone writings of Jewish women have largely been ignored within their own community because of their gender, international French studies' nescience of these women may derive from the ethnicity of these women. Israel, with which even diasporic Jews are commonly if erroneously associated, has since 1967 increasingly been condemned as a colonial power, leading by ripple effect to the academy's demoting of Jewish relative to Arab francophone writing. Yet Israel's self-understanding is legitimized by its status as a victim of European anti-Semitism and Judaeocide. It seems to no exaggeration to suggest that Jewish women writing in French constitute a doubly marginalized, unjustly neglected demographic.
