Essais sur les Juifs

We are living today in an age of anxiety, stirred by acts of aggression against Jews and by a deep sense that the pact made with the French Republic is being called into question. How did we get here? Should we see it as the spillover of the endless Arab-Israeli conflict and the spread of political anti-Zionism? Is it the presence of a large Muslim population struggling to integrate, and, even more, the threat of a "red-brown" antisemitism uniting far left and far right, combined with the effects of Islamist fundamentalism?

This is not simply a matter of looking back. Dominique Schnapper recalls a principle borne out by our history: threats against Jews have always come before the collapse of democracy. Her reflections give us the means to fight these dark passions whenever the common good gives way to the onslaught of identity claims, and to find agreement on the foundations of a shared culture.