Bøger af Pierre Birnbaum

This is the tale of an accusation of blood libel during a period when France prided itself on its rationality.

In Geography of Hope, French sociologist and historian Pierre Birnbaum examines the work of the some of the prominent Jewish social scientists of the past two centuries in order to analyze their range of responses to the tensions between the Enlightenment call for universalism and the reality of Jewish particularism.

This book provides a highly original account of the Franco-Jewish political and administrative elitegenerals, politicians, judges, magistrates, and prefectsfrom the final decades of the nineteenth century to the Vichy regime.