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Podcast: New Books in Jewish Studies
Episode: 164 Maurice Samuels: Jewish Assimilation, Integration and the Dreyfus Affair (JP)
Description: When it comes to the condition of Jews in Christian Europe, France was long known as the haven and heartland of integration and of toleration. And yet when things seemed to be going well for Jews in Western Europe and North America generally and France especially, the infamous fin de siècle Dreyfus affair brought to the surface some of the worst kinds of bigotry and animus--like contemporaneous Russian pogroms a premonition of the deadly looming revival of ethnic or religious divisions that had seemed a thing of the past.
Our guest today, historian Maurice Samuels, author of m...