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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782319403321

Autore

Wieviorka Michel

Titolo

The lure of anti-Semitism [[electronic resource] ] : hatred of Jews in present-day France / / by Michel Wieviorka ; with Philippe Bataille ... [et al.] ; translated by Kristin Couper Lobel and Anna Declerck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007

ISBN

1-281-93958-7

9786611939588

90-474-2183-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (460 p.)

Collana

Jewish identities in a changing world, , 1570-7997 ; ; v. 10

Altri autori (Persone)

BataillePhilippe

Disciplina

305.892/40440905

Soggetti

Antisemitism - France - History - 21st century

Jews - France - Politics and government - 21st century

France Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Works by Michel Wieviorka": p. [xix]-xx.

Nota di contenuto

What do the statistics tell us? -- In schools -- Changes in the public sphere -- The Shoah: deficit, plethora and loss of meaning -- Global anti-Semitism -- The Jews in France: developments and concerns -- Anti-Semitism (almost) without Jews -- The power of the imagination -- A sociological intervention -- Muslim anti-Semitism: the view from prison -- The Jews, the ChaldoAssyrians and the others -- Anti-Semitism at local level -- An unusual variant of "global" anti-Semitism -- "Why there were no clashes in Sarcelles" -- The Marseilles counterpoint: the Pieds-Noirs and the Jews -- The fears of the Jews in Alsace -- Malaise in the Alsatian countryside -- Two extreme right political forces, two anti-Semitic rationales -- Mohammed Latrè€che and the Parti des Musulmans de France -- Desecrations -- Boycotting Israel -- Two extreme cases of anti-Zionism -- Leftism in decline and extreme anti-Zionism -- The clamour of the media and the silence of the teachers -- Dealing with the Shoah in schools -- Ethnic diversity in schools -- Abuse and attacks -- Anti-Semitism in schools and globalisation.



Sommario/riassunto

Since the beginning of the 21st century France has seen the return of anti-Semitism with attacks, desecration of cemeteries, insults, and threats. This book is the outcome of a survey carried out by Michel Wieviorka along with a dozen sociologists. He examines different tracks: the possible links between anti-Semitism and the presence of a considerable Muslim population in France, the hypothesis of a meeting between Islamism and the anti-Semitic extreme left, as well as the hypothesis whereby the rise of anti-Semitism is connected with the evolution of the Jewish population in France which is increasingly attracted by a community-oriented way of life. This book demonstrates that present-day anti-Semitism owes as much to factors internal to French society (the social, institutional, and political crisis) as it does to the projection of global issues on French soil, in particular those which originate in the Middle East. He demonstrates that this phenomenon has novel aspects, but its more classical features are also borne in mind. This rigorous and objective book is the first scientific study of present-day French anti-Semitism.