Drumont, Edouard. La France Juive [“Jewish France”]

(ANTISEMITICA)

P. Mouillot

Paris

1886

Replete with black-and-white engravings. Some French marginalia in blue pencil

Designed to portray the Jew as the enemy of mankind. The title points to the author’s belief that Jews have come to dominate every aspect of French life. The anti-Semitic activities of Eduard Drumont (1844-1917) began prior to the Dreyfus Affair, but certainly climaxed during “L’Affaire.” Drumont was the publisher of La Libre Parole - notoriously anti-Jewish and anti-Dreyfusard. In the view of historian Jacob Katz, Drumont’s views were as extreme as those expressed later by the German Nazis. See Norman L. Kleeblatt, The Dreyfus Affair (1987), pp. 76-77