Rethinking Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France

Julie Kalman lectures in Jewish History at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She has published work on France and the Jews in the nineteenth century in French Historical Studies and Jewish Social Studies. Dr Kalman is an International Fellow of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture for 2008–9.

• Introduction: charting a noisy silence; 1. Competing solutions to a Jewish question; 2. The unyielding wall: Christianity and Judaism; 3. The eternal Jew; 4. Sensuality, depravity, and ritual murder: Jews in the Orient, and Jews at home?; 5. 'Rothschildian greed: this new variety of despotism'; 6. Evolutions in the Jewish question; Conclusion.

'In this thoroughly researched and persuasively argued study, Julie Kalman skillfully traces the evolution of the Jew in the French imagination. Her important book succeeds admirably in elucidating the role of antisemitism in the cultural formation of modern France.' Jay R. Berkovitz, University of Massachusetts Amherst