Pour le meilleur et pour le pire: vingt siècles d'histoire juive en France, Volume 1

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Bibliophane, 1986 - France - 527 pages
A history of the Jews of France from the ancient period to the present, including anti-Jewish manifestations in the Middle Ages, such as the Crusades, the expulsions, the anti-Jewish activities of Louis IX, and the formation of ghettos. In the Napoleonic period, mentions heavy taxation and judicial inequality. During the Restoration the anti-Jewish decrees were annulled. Discusses the Jews of French North Africa and the antisemitic reactions provoked by the Cremieux decree (1870). Ch. 5 (pp. 327-342) is devoted to the Dreyfus Affair and its repercussions in France and Algeria. Examines the interwar period, Vichy, and the Holocaust, including antisemitism in literary circles and the wave of antisemitism provoked by the government of Leon Blum. Mentions the pogrom in Constantine (1934) and in other localities in Algeria. In the postwar period, mentions anti-Jewish terrorist actions carried out by Arabs and neo-Nazi groups.

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