"Poliakov’s multi-volume chronicle, “The History of Anti-Semitism,” is one of the most scrupulous scholarly enterprises of the postwar era. It is also one of the most sickening—and it concludes its narrative in 1933, five years before Kristallnacht. Many of the most shocking chapters are set in Poliakov’s adopted country, France, where, by the nineteenth century, hatred of Jews was a proxy for a generalized revulsion for modernity, secularism, and republican values."
The Shadow of Anti-Semitism in France - The New Yorker
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