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The Anti-Semitic Moment: A Tour of France in 1898
Contributor(s): Birnbaum, Pierre (Author), Todd, Jane Marie (Translator)
ISBN: 0226052060     ISBN-13: 9780226052069
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
OUR PRICE:   $31.68  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - France
- History | Jewish - General
- Religion | Judaism - History
Dewey: 305.892
LCCN: 2010041423
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.19 lbs) 400 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - French
- Ethnic Orientation - Jewish
- Religious Orientation - Jewish
 
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Publisher Description:

In 1898, the Dreyfus Affair plunged French society into a yearlong frenzy. In Paris and provincial villages throughout the country, angry crowds paraded through the streets, threatening to attack Jews and destroy Jewish-owned businesses. Anger about the imagined power of Jewish capital, as well as fears of treason and racial degeneration, made anti-Semitism a convenient banner behind which social and political factions could fall in line. Anti-Semitic feelings that had been simmering in France for decades came boiling to the surface.

Here Pierre Birnbaum guides readers on a tour of France during this crisis. He shows that in the midst of violence, Jewish citizens bravely and effectively defended themselves and were aided by a police force determined to maintain order. Birnbaum paints a vivid portrait of French Jewish culture at the time and explains why the French state remained strong in this time of widespread unrest.


Contributor Bio(s): Todd, Jane Marie: - Jane Marie Todd has translated some seventy books, including Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia, also published by the University of Chicago Press.