Product Description: On an autumn morning in 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus appeared for a routine inspection but found himself summarily accused of high treason. Here he began a twelve-year ordeal that included imprisonment on Devil's Island, forgery, the publication of Emile Zola's "J'Accuse", trial, retrial, and long delayed pardon...read more

An exhaustively researched biography profiles one of history's most reviled characters, Louis Darquier, a Nazi collaborator and Vichy Commissioner for Jewish Affairs, who, from 1942 to 1944, managed the Vichy government's dirty work in controlling its Jewish population, and discusses his life origins, his family life, and his rise to power. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Product Description: In this analysis of racialism in late-nineteenth-century France, antisemitism is studied not in isolation but in its social context, as an indicator and symptom of profound social change. As anticapitalism, for example, antisemitism expressedËœhostility to modern economic forms and 'the rule of money'; as a kind of socialism, it expressed opposition to the establishment without calling the social hierarchy into question; as a kind of nationalism and as racialism, it created a sense of belonging, in opposition to the Jews and to other supposedly alien groups within French society...read more

An exhaustively researched biography profiles one of history's most reviled characters, Louis Darquier, a Nazi collaborator and Vichy Commissioner for Jewish Affairs, who, from 1942 to 1944, managed the Vichy government's dirty work in controlling its Jewish population, and discusses his life origins, his family life, and his rise to power. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: The Jewish poet Edmond Jabès, born in Cairo in 1912, characterized his writings as 'not belonging'. Drawing on unpublished archival and rare printed sources, Steven Jaron traces this sense of exile to early beginnings, while Jabès was still living in Egypt...read more

Product Description: Eighteen noted historians and political scientists analyze the history of the Jewish minority in France since the Revolution.

An indepth exploration of citizenship and its relationship to minorities focuses on the culture of France and the history of Jewish citizens there, showing how antiSemitism has waxed and waned since the Revolution and offering provocative conclusions about modernday racism (view table of contents)

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Product Description: The Dreyfus affair--the famous account of French Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus unjustly convicted of treason in 1894--was the most significant political and social crisis of fin-de-siècle Europe. This book, designed to introduce the broad outlines and significant history, deftly interweaves text with documents, tracing the events of the affair and highlighting militant nationalism, socialism, the birth of modern Zionism, the separation of church and state, and the emergence of the "intellectual" in the political arena...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This wide-ranging work confronts the complex question of nationalism in France in its various permutations―myths, obsessions, possibilities, and dangers. French nationalism has always been a double-edged sword, from its beginnings in the French Revolution through the two Napoleonic empires, Boulangism, the Dreyfus affair, the fascist groups of the 1930’s, Marshal Pétain’s National Revolution during World War II, and its latest contemporary incarnation in Jean-Marie Le Pen’s National Front. The author distinguishes between an “open” nationalism, based on the revolutionary values of liberty and equality for all, and “closed” nationalism, which is xenophobic―and, more particularly, antisemitic. He studies not only governments and political figures―Napoleon, Louis Napoleon, Marshal Pétain, and General de Gaulle―but also the myths associated with nationalism. These myths are captured in newspaper articles (the charity bazaar fire of 1897), in literature (Huysmans, Céline), and in the writings of insurgents (Edouard Drumont, Jules Guérin). The author pays particular attention to French “national socialism,” which wanted to transcend the categories of left and right in order to unite workers and owners under the banner of a providential leader, but which inevitably scapegoated the Jews. In tracing the history of closed nationalism and its need for a providential man, the author also sheds new light on the relation between socialism and fascism in France, most recently brought to the fore by the Mitterand government in the 1980’s. In the process of analyzing nationalism in France, the author draws on areas of study ranging from French anti-Americanism and Zeev Sternhell’s history of “unconscious” fascism in France to the mythical use of Joan of Arc in the service of antisemitism.

Product Description: In September 1894 the French authorities intercepted a letter which they claimed emanated from a Jewish army captain, Alfred Dreyfus, which they claimed to be proof of espionage on behalf of Germany. Dreyfus was subsequently court-martialed and imprisoned on Devil's Island, and the efforts of his family to have him released provoked an anti-Semitic controversy that split the French intellectual world down the center...read more

An investigation of the scandal concerning the cosmetics firm's association with French Nazis and the accusations that L'Oreal executives protected high-ranking Nazis

Traces the Dreyfus family through six generations, from the French Revolution to the Dreyfus affair in the late 1890s, to World War II

Looks at anti-Semitism and the distorted perception of Jewish people by Western civilization, and investigates the cases of three Jews accused of murder or treason (view table of contents)

A biography of the Dreyfus family--whose name is linked with the notorious Dreyfus Affair--traces the clan from the French Revolution to the Second World War

Recounts the case of Alfred Dreyfus, discusses the historical background of his trial, and examines its influence on French history (view table of contents)