The Lure of Anti-Semitism: Hatred of Jews in Present-Day France (Jewish Identities in a Changing World)

461 Pages·2007·1.81 MB·English

by  Wieviorka

The Lure of Anti-Semitism
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Jewish Identities in a
Changing World
General Editors
Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yosef Gorny
VOLUME 10
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The Lure of Anti-Semitism
Hatred of Jews in Present-Day France
By
Michel Wieviorka
with
Philippe Bataille, Clarisse Buono, Sébastien Delsalle,
Damien Guillaume, Farhad Khosrokhavar,
Emmanuel Kreis, Jocelyne Ohana, Alexandra Poli,
Svetlana Tabatchnikova, Simonetta Tabboni,
Nikola Tietze, Fiammetta Venner
Translated by
Kristin Couper Lobel and Anna Declerck
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2007
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This book was (cid:2) rst published as, La tentation antisémite : haine des Juifs dans la France
d’aujourd’hui. Editions Robert Laffont, Paris, 2005.
The author would like to acknowledge the aid of the Fondation pour la mémoire de la
Shoah in the translation of this book.
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on
http://catalog.loc.gov.
ISBN 1570-7997
ISBN 978 90 04 16337 9
Copyright 2007 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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For Roman, a true Gosu
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CONTENTS
Abbreviations ............................................................................ xi
Translators’ Note ...................................................................... xv
Works by Michel Wieviorka ..................................................... xix
General Introduction .................................................................. xxi
PART ONE
BACKGROUND
Introduction ................................................................................ 3
1. What Do the Statistics Tell Us? ...................................... 5
2. In Schools ......................................................................... 16
3. Changes in the Public Sphere ......................................... 23
4. The Shoah: De(cid:2) cit, Plethora and Loss of Meaning ...... 48
5. Global Anti-Semitism ...................................................... 62
6. The Jews in France: Developments and Concerns ......... 80
Conclusion .................................................................................. 88
PART TWO
GHETTO ANTI-SEMITISM
Introduction ................................................................................ 93
7. Anti-Semitism (almost) without Jews ............................... 98
8. The Power of the Imagination ........................................ 115
9. A Sociological Intervention ............................................. 124
10. Muslim Anti-Semitism: The View from Prison .............. 141
Conclusion .................................................................................. 156
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PART THREE
ANTI-SEMITISM AND COMMUNITIES
Introduction ................................................................................ 161
11. The Jews, the ChaldoAssyrians and the Others ............. 163
12. Anti-Semitism at Local Level .......................................... 177
13. An Unusual Variant of ‘Global’ Anti-Semitism ............. 200
14. “Why There Were No Clashes in Sarcelles” .................. 214
15. The Marseilles Counterpoint: The Pieds-noirs and the
Jews ................................................................................. 228
PART FOUR
IN ALSACE
Introduction ................................................................................ 241
16. The Fears of the Jews in Alsace ...................................... 244
17. Malaise in the Alsatian Countryside ............................... 255
18. Two Extreme Right Political Forces, Two Anti-Semitic
Rationales ......................................................................... 270
19. Mohammed Latrèche and the Parti des musulmans
de France ............................................................................ 283
20. Desecrations ..................................................................... 294
Conclusion .................................................................................. 306
PART FIVE
IN THE UNIVERSITIES
Introduction .............................................................................. 311
21. Boycotting Israel ............................................................ 314
22. Two Extreme Cases of Anti-Zionism ........................... 320
23. Leftism in Decline and Extreme Anti-Zionism ............ 333
Conclusion ................................................................................ 351
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PART SIX
ANTI-SEMITISM: A QUESTION IN SCHOOLS?
Introduction .............................................................................. 359
24. The Clamour of the Media and the Silence of the
Teachers ......................................................................... 361
25. Dealing with the Shoah in Schools ............................... 376
26. Ethnic Diversity in Schools ........................................... 390
27. Abuse and Attacks ......................................................... 398
28. Anti-Semitism in Schools and Globalisation ................ 410
General Conclusion .................................................................. 418
Index ........................................................................................... 427
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