The Anti-Semitic Moment

A Tour of France in 1898

By: Pierre Birnbaum, Jane Marie Todd (Translator)

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Paperback | 15 April 2011 | Edition Number 1

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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, 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.

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"An important contribution both to the ever-mounting history of the [Dreyfus] Affair and to the general history of Jewry in the modern period." (Times Literary Supplement) "This meticulous account of the anti-Semitic hysteria that swept France in 1898... makes for terrifying and fascinating reading." (Atlantic Monthly)"

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Map of France	p. ix
Introduction	p. 3
Is Paris Burning?	p. 7
Journey to the Center of France	p. 74
In Barrésian Lorraine	p. 123
Storm on the Coast: Algerian Marseilles	p. 150
Radical Toulouse, Nationalist Bordeaux	p. 185
Take Arms, Citizens of Vendée!	p. 221
The Battle of Brest	p. 255
In the Region of Normandy	p. 272
Good Superintendent Leproust Peacekeeping and Prejudice Among the Police	p. 290
The ôArroganceö of Rabbi Taubmann: Passivity and Resistance Among the Jews	p. 309
Conclusion	p. 332
Chronology of Events in the Dreyfus Affair	p. 337
Notes	p. 341
Index	p. 379
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