L'Antisemitisme Eclaire: Inclusion et Exclusion depuis l'Epoque des Lumieres jusqu'a l'Affaire Dreyfus / Inclusion and Exclusion: Perspectives on Jews from the Enlightenment to the Dreyfus Affair

This volume principally deals with perceptions on Jews dating from the beginnings of their emancipation to the Dreyfus Affair. The title in French, and the original title of the colloquium in Hebrew, Enlightened Antisemitism not only reflects the overall anti-religious (anti-Christian and, hence, by necessity, anti-Jewish) sentiments of an Enlightenment figure such as Voltaire, but also refers to those who justified either their philosemitism and antisemitism with erudition: Johann David Michaelis, Antoine Guenee, Charles Maurras, etc. With France as its focal point, the volume also contains essays that treat various perceptions of Jews during the same period in England, Germany and Italy. Interdisciplinary in nature, this collection of essays treats the Jewish question from historical, literary and sociological angles.