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Is French anti-Semitism over?(Brief Article)

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19980117
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A CENTURY has passed since Emile Zola launched his diatribe, "J'accuse . . . ", against the wrongful conviction for espionage of Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish captain in the French army. But the French, hosts to Western Europe's biggest Jewish community, still wrestle with their consciences over their attitude-past and present-to the Jews.

Their record is not glorious, though not as bad as some. From the 13th century until the French revolution in 1789, Jews in France, as in many other places, were systematically persecuted. Granted religious and civic rights in 1791, ...

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