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Ideology and experience : anti-Semitism in France at the time of the Dreyfus affair

Stephen Wilson (Author)
In this analysis of racism in late nineteenth-century France, anti-Semitism is studied in its social context as an indicator and symptom of social change. The author provides a more general analysis of anti-Semitic ideology in France, and the text concludes with a study of the Jewish response to this challenge. The volume focuses on antisemitism in France at the time of the Dreyfus Affair. This upsurge of antisemitism occurred in a country which had a very small Jewish community, by Central and East European standards, and the 'autonomous' aspect of antisemitism, its general social function as an ideology, is thus more evident

eBook, English, 2020
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, Oxford, 2020