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.

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 be...

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Superior document:Jewish identities in a changing world, v. 10
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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.
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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.