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Frenchness, Jewishness, and ‘integration’ in Karin Albou’s La Petite Jérusalem

Karin Albou’s film La Petite Jérusalem (2005) stages the inner dilemmas of Laura, a 19-year-old Jewish woman of Tunisian origin who lives in Sarcelles, a Parisian suburb with a large Jewish population. This article examines the ways in which, through Laura’s rejection of Jewish traditions and her complicated love affair with an illegal Muslim-Algerian immigrant, Albou subverts notions of ‘Frenchness’, ‘Jewishness’ and territoriality in the ‘banlieues’, while challenging the French Republican model of integration and pointing to France’s failure to foster an environment that acknowledges and promotes diversity.