This book traces the global, national, and local origins of the
conflict between Muslims and Jews in France, challenging the belief
that rising anti-Semitism in France is rooted solely in the
unfolding crisis in Israel and Palestine. Maud Mandel shows how the
conflict in fact emerged from processes internal to French society
itself even as it was shaped by affairs elsewhere, particularly in
North Africa during the era of decolonization.
Mandel examines moments in which conflicts between Muslims and
Jews became a matter of concern to French police, the media, and an
array of self-appointed spokesmen from both communities: Israel's
War of Independence in 1948, France's decolonization of North
Africa, the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the 1968 student riots, and
Francois Mitterrand's experiments with multiculturalism in the
1980s. She takes an in-depth, on-the-ground look at interethnic
relations in Marseille, which is home to the country's largest
Muslim and Jewish populations outside of Paris. She reveals how
Muslims and Jews in France have related to each other in diverse
ways throughout this history--as former residents of French North
Africa, as immigrants competing for limited resources, as employers
and employees, as victims of racist aggression, as religious
minorities in a secularizing state, and as French citizens.
In "Muslims and Jews in France," Mandel traces the way these
multiple, complex interactions have been overshadowed and obscured
by a reductionist narrative of Muslim-Jewish polarization."
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