France’s new antisemitism
“Men ist azoy wie Gott in Frankreich”, a Yiddish proverb popular throughout much of the 19-century, hinted that Jews were as “happy as God in France.” Like most of Europe, France has lived through antisemitic waves, from the Dreyfus affair (1894-1906) to the Vichy government’s antisemitic laws of 1940-1941 and its collaboration in the Shoah in 1943-1944. But, despite the...