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

by Pierre Birnbaum

Book Overview

A controversial new look at a turning point in modern European history In 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809065010
• ISBN13: 9780809065011
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Hill & Wang
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.4"