The Anti-Semitic Impulse
Publisher
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Éditions Robert Laffont
Parution date
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2005
EAN
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9782221104453
Description
In La tentation antisémite : Haine des Juifs dans la France d’aujourd’hui, preeminent social scientist Michel Wieviorka turns his attention to France’s recent bout of anti-Semitism. In six sections that explore the manifestations of anti-Semitism in locales social, academic, political, and geographical, he gathers testimony from members of the extreme right and left, and in between, in cities and suburbs, and from prisons, to schools, and universities, exposing a nascent resurgent emotion, and its causes. Beyond the liberal Left’s identification with the Palestinian cause, France’s current battle with anti-Semitism is often further blamed on the radicalization of the North African Muslim immigrant population. For Wieviorka, a more profound analysis was in order. For over two years he and his research assistants canvassed the country to find out just how pervasive the discrimination had become, and where and how it was taking root. The amalgam of that research is an invaluable sociological study of a country and its people at a social and racial cross-roads.
Author
Michel Wieviorka : Michel Wieviorka is a sociologist and the director of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. His most recent publications include La tentation antisémite : Haine des juifs dans la France d'aujourd'hui (Éditions Robert Laffont, 2005) and L'avenir de l'islam en France et en Europe : Les Entretiens d'Auxerre (Éditions Balland, 2003). He is one of France’s greatest authorities on this subject, sought after by the international media during the recent upheaval in Paris and around the country.
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