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Record Nr.

UNINA9910799298403321

Autore

Wilson Stephen <1941->

Titolo

Ideology and experience : anti-Semitism in France at the time of the Dreyfus affair / / Stephen Wilson [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, , 2020

ISBN

1-80034-099-0

1-909821-87-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (34 pages)

Collana

Liverpool scholarship online.

Disciplina

305.8924044

Soggetti

Antisemitism - France - History - 19th century

Jews - France - Social conditions - 19th century

France Ethnic relations History 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1982.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.