The Anti-Semitic Moment: A Tour of France in 1898
By Pierre Birnbaum.
Description
A controversial new look at a turning point in modern European historyIn 1898, the Dreyfus Affair plunged French society into a year-long frenzy. In small villages and big cities, 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 many 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. Until now, ...
ISBN(s)
0809065010, 9780809065011