"In 1898, the Dreyfus Affair plunged French society into a yearlong frenzy...The anti-Semitic feelings that had been simmering in France for decades came boiling to the surface...Pierre Birnbaum's innovative study makes it clear why, though prolonged violence threatened to topple the government, the institution of the state did not give way." 388pp inc index.

ANTISEMITISM FRANCE HISTORY SOCIAL CONDITIONS 19TH CENTURY THIRD REPUBLIC POLITICS DREYFUS