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

• Superior document: Jewish identities in a changing world, v. 10
• Author: Wieviorka, Michel.
• TeilnehmendeR: Bataille, Philippe.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish identities in a changing world ; v. 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (460 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

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 Latrèche 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.