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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 or antisemitism with erudition: Johann David Michaelis, Antoine Guinie, 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.
About the author
Ilana Y. Zinguer, Ph.D. (1976) dès Lettres, Université de Tours (France) is Professor of French Literature at the University Haifa (Israel). She has published extensively on Renaissance texts
Beroalde de Verville, Montaigne; on travels - anthropological and cultural aspects; on medical science and alchemy including
Le Roman stéganamorphique, Ed.Champion (Paris,1993)
Sam W. Bloom, Ph.D. (2000) in French Literature, Columbia University (New York), is Lecturer in French Literature at the University of Haifa. His publications have concentrated on various facets of the Jewish question within French literature and particularly in the works of Marcel Proust. He co-edited and contributed to
Forging Modern Jewish Identities (London, 2003).
