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The Anti-Semitic Moment : A Tour of France in 1898, Paperback / softback Book

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

Paperback / softback

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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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