1. From the Dreyfus Affair to France Today.
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SOCIAL history ,SOCIOLOGY ,ANTISEMITISM - Abstract
The article presents information about the paper "From the Dreyfus Affair to France Today," by Hannah Arendt, published in the vol. 4, 1942 issue of the periodical "Jewish Social Studies." The anti-semitism of Vichy, coming as it did from cosmopolitan, liberal, civilized France, astounded the world. But, as Arendt shows, it is no new phenomenon but one that has economic, sociological and political roots back in the eighties. Her work in social history is marred, unfortunately, by an uncritical acceptance of the old canards about the Jesuits, whose role in nineteenth-century France as an order, considered apart from some individual members, would receive a different interpretation had Arendt looked as searchingly into the records on this account as on others.
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- 1943