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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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Anti-Semitic Moment
• Subtitle: A Tour of France in 1898
• Author: Pierre Birnbaum
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• EAN: 9780226052069
• ISBN: 0226052060
• ID: 04542603
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 632 g
• Dimensions: 156 × 229 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. April 2011

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