The Anti-Semitic Moment: A Tour of France in 1898

Pierre Birnbaum

The Anti-Semitic Moment: A Tour of France in 1898
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Country
United States
Published
25 March 2011
Pages
400
ISBN
9780226052069

The Anti-Semitic Moment: A Tour of France in 1898

Pierre Birnbaum

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, attacking Jews and destroying 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. The 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 tumultuous crisis. He shows that in the midst of prolonged violence, Jewish citizens bravely and effectively defended themselves and were aided by a police force determined to maintain order. In The Anti-Semitic Moment 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. .

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