The Lure of Anti-Semitism
Hatred of Jews in Present-Day France
Michel Wieviorka. Translated from the French by Kristin Couper Lobel and Anna Declerck
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Biographical note
Michel Wieviorka, Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and President of the International Sociological Association. He has published in particular on racism (The Arena of Racism, 1995) and on terrorism (The Making of Terrorism, 2003).
Readership
Scholars and students of contemporary Jewry, anti-Semitism, as well as sociologists.
Table of contents
CONTENTS
PART ONE BACKGROUND
Introduction
1. What Do the Statistics Tell Us?
2. In Schools
3. Changes in the Public Sphere
4. The Shoah: Deficit, Plethora and Loss of Meaning
5. Global Anti-Semitism
6. The Jews in France: Developments and Concerns
Conclusion
PART TWO GHETTO ANTI-SEMITISM
Introduction
7. Anti-Semitism (almost) without Jews
8. The Power of the Imagination
9. A Sociological Intervention
10. Muslim Anti-Semitism: The View from Prison
Conclusion
PART THREE ANTI-SEMITISM AND COMMUNITIES
Introduction
11. The Jews, the ChaldoAssyrians and the Others
12. Anti-Semitism at Local Level
13. An Unusual Variant of ‘Global’ Anti-Semitism
14. “Why There Were No Clashes in Sarcelles”
15. The Marseilles Counterpoint: The Pieds-noirs and the Jews
PART FOUR IN ALSACE
Introduction
16. The Fears of the Jews in Alsace
17. Malaise in the Alsatian Countryside
18. Two Extreme Right Political Forces, Two Anti-Semitic Rationales
19. Mohammed Latrèche and the Parti des musulmans de France
20. Desecrations
Conclusion
PART FIVE IN THE UNIVERSITIES
Introduction
21. Boycotting Israel
22. Two Extreme Cases of Anti-Zionism
23. Leftism in Decline and Extreme Anti-Zionism
Conclusion
PART SIX ANTI-SEMITISM: A QUESTION IN SCHOOLS?
Introduction
24. The Clamour of the Media and the Silence of the Teachers
25. Dealing with the Shoah in Schools
26. Ethnic Diversity in Schools
27. Abuse and Attacks
28. Anti-Semitism in Schools and Globalisation
General Conclusion
PART ONE BACKGROUND
Introduction
1. What Do the Statistics Tell Us?
2. In Schools
3. Changes in the Public Sphere
4. The Shoah: Deficit, Plethora and Loss of Meaning
5. Global Anti-Semitism
6. The Jews in France: Developments and Concerns
Conclusion
PART TWO GHETTO ANTI-SEMITISM
Introduction
7. Anti-Semitism (almost) without Jews
8. The Power of the Imagination
9. A Sociological Intervention
10. Muslim Anti-Semitism: The View from Prison
Conclusion
PART THREE ANTI-SEMITISM AND COMMUNITIES
Introduction
11. The Jews, the ChaldoAssyrians and the Others
12. Anti-Semitism at Local Level
13. An Unusual Variant of ‘Global’ Anti-Semitism
14. “Why There Were No Clashes in Sarcelles”
15. The Marseilles Counterpoint: The Pieds-noirs and the Jews
PART FOUR IN ALSACE
Introduction
16. The Fears of the Jews in Alsace
17. Malaise in the Alsatian Countryside
18. Two Extreme Right Political Forces, Two Anti-Semitic Rationales
19. Mohammed Latrèche and the Parti des musulmans de France
20. Desecrations
Conclusion
PART FIVE IN THE UNIVERSITIES
Introduction
21. Boycotting Israel
22. Two Extreme Cases of Anti-Zionism
23. Leftism in Decline and Extreme Anti-Zionism
Conclusion
PART SIX ANTI-SEMITISM: A QUESTION IN SCHOOLS?
Introduction
24. The Clamour of the Media and the Silence of the Teachers
25. Dealing with the Shoah in Schools
26. Ethnic Diversity in Schools
27. Abuse and Attacks
28. Anti-Semitism in Schools and Globalisation
General Conclusion
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