![]() In addition to such path-breaking pioneers in philosophy, sociology, anthropology, history, and literary criticism, hundreds of thousands of ordinary French Jews have played a productive and integral role in their country’s social and political life. I think of the extraordinary contributions that Jews in France have made to the vibrant intellectual life of that country: The list would include, among too many others to include here, the names of Raymond Aron, Julien Benda, Marc Bloch, Jacques Derrida, Emile Durkheim, Claude Levi-Strauss, Darius Milhaud, and Marcel Proust. What causes the feeling of dismay and regret in this longtime student of French history is not Israel’s potential gain but France’s potential loss. ![]() ![]() Of course, Jews in any country have a perfect right to make aliyah to Israel any time they choose to do so, and, as Prime Minister Netanyahu declared last week, they will be welcomed there with open arms. His thoughts, in his own words, are as follows:Īs a non-Jewish historian of France with several dear Jewish friends in that country, I read with great dismay the recent news articles suggesting that many French Jews are considering emigrating to Israel to escape the rising tide of anti-Semitism most recently demonstrated in the brutal attack in a Paris kosher market that left four Jewish patrons dead on the eve of the Jewish Shabbat last week. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, wrote a reflection on the scourge of anti-Semitism in France. William Keylor, professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S.
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