Leroy-Beaulieu, Anatole. Les Immigrants Juifs et le Judaïsme aux États-Unis.

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Librairie nouvelle

Paris

1905

Leroy-Beaulieu (1842-1912), a member of the elite Institut de France, was one of the leading writers and activists on the liberal side of a French society fiercely divided in the late 19th and early 20th centuries between, for example, Dreyfusards and anti-Dreyfusards. The causes championed by Leroy-Beaulieu were historic preservation and human rights. This pamphlet on “The Jewish Immigrants and Judaism in the United States” began life as a lecture delivered to the Society for Jewish Studies in Paris in December 1904. The content, however, is not so much academic research - as the testimony of a sophisticated eyewitness, just back from a visit to the United States, where he had closely observed “a spectacle that is assuredly one of the greatest, most striking, I dare say even miraculous, that one could possibly encounter in this land of America, land of wonders just as much as land of liberty.”