The Dreyfus Affair and Durkheim’s Experience of Anti-Semitism

The Oxford Handbook of Émile Durkheim ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190679354.013.8 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Pierre Birnbaum

Keyword(s):

Emile Durkheim ◽

Sociological Analysis ◽

Explanatory Variables ◽

Anti Semitism ◽

Dreyfus Affair ◽

The Subject ◽

Sociological Method ◽

Full Swing

This article emphasizes the importance of the Dreyfus Affair in the manner in which Emile Durkheim approached the subject of anti-Semitism between 1897 and 1899, while the Affair was in full swing in France. Although Durkheim was the founder of positivist sociology, disconnected from preconceived notions, he nevertheless courageously entered the fight to defend Dreyfus, both as a scholar and as a Jew. In a series of articles and letters, he reflected on the causes of anti-Semitism and proposed an interpretation of Jews as scapegoats, because in his view society’s suffering was resolved by ostracizing Jews as pariahs. But this interpretation is unsatisfactory. Based on impressions rather than on a sociological analysis conducted in accordance with his Rules of Sociological Method, Durkheim’s analysis of explanatory variables is not convincing and is oriented around psychological considerations rarely seen elsewhere in his work.

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Judaism and Heterogeneity in the Modernist Long Novel

Modernist Cultures ◽

10.3366/mod.2015.0119 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 357-379

Author(s):

Jeremy Tambling

Keyword(s):

Latin American ◽

George Eliot ◽

Marcel Proust ◽

Carlos Fuentes ◽

American Novel ◽

Dorothy Richardson ◽

Anti Semitism ◽

Dreyfus Affair ◽

Meaningful Category ◽

Roberto Bolano

This paper explores how Judaism is represented in non-Jewish writers of the nineteenth-century (outstandingly, Walter Scott and George Eliot) and in modernist long novels, such as those by Dorothy Richardson, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Alfred Döblin, Robert Musil, and Thomas Mann, and, in the Latin American novel, Carlos Fuentes and Roberto Bolaño. It finds a relationship between the length of the ‘long’ novel, as a meaningful category in itself (not to be absorbed into other modernist narratives), and the interest that these novels have in Judaism, and in anti-semitism (e.g. in the Dreyfus affair) as something which cannot be easily assimilated into the narratives which the writers mentioned are interested in. The paper investigates the implications of this claim for reading these texts.

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The Beilis case: Anti-Semitism and Politics in the Reign of Nicholas II

Slavic Review ◽

10.2307/2492823 ◽

1966 ◽

Vol 25 (4) ◽

pp. 615-629 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Hans Rogger

Keyword(s):

Ritual Murder ◽

Anti Semitism ◽

Dreyfus Affair ◽

A Charge

The Beilis case—a charge of ritual murder brought against an obscure Jewish clerk in July 1911 and tried before a Kiev jury in September 1913— has more than once been called Russia's Dreyfus Affair. As a shorthand summary, the comparison serves well enough. In both instances an innocent nonentity was plucked out of obscurity to become the object of a contest whose larger implications, while they agitated politics and opinion, escaped the victim or left him indifferent. Beyond this, points of difference loom larger than those of similarity.

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Anti-Semitism in Alexandria

The Journal of Roman Studies ◽

10.2307/297098 ◽

1941 ◽

Vol 31 (1-2) ◽

pp. 1-18 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

H. I. Bell

Keyword(s):

Anti Semitism ◽

History Of ◽

The Subject

The subject of this paper is the relations between Jews and Greeks in Alexandria, that long-protracted racial animosity which forms one of the most interesting chapters in the history of what is commonly, if loosely, known as anti-semitism; but before coming to my subject proper it will be necessary to say something about the position of the Alexandrian Jews.

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Juridische Soziologien

10.5771/9783748909736 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Doris Schweitzer

Keyword(s):

19Th Century ◽

Max Weber ◽

Emile Durkheim ◽

Private Law ◽

Social Phenomenon ◽

Problematic Relationship ◽

Legal Perspective ◽

The Face ◽

The Subject ◽

The 19Th Century

Why did the subject of law play a central role in sociology as it emerged? And why is this no longer the case today? This study explains this transformation of the sociological interest in law by means of a genealogical investigation into the mutual references between the jurisprudence of private law and sociology: the way in which, from a legal perspective starting in the 19th century, law has been addressed as a social phenomenon in the face of concrete problems is reflected in the early sociologies of Émile Durkheim, Ferdinand Tönnies and Max Weber. This has led to a mutual demarcation, which places law and sociology in a problematic relationship to each other for the future.

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PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS AND FORECASTING SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUBJECT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

VESTNIK OF ASTRAKHAN STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY ◽

10.24143/1812-9498-2017-1-62-68 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 62-68

Author(s):

Delya Valeryevna Ulanova ◽

Mikhail Igorevich Shikulskiy

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Economic Forecast ◽

Data Set ◽

Explanatory Variables ◽

Socio Economic Development ◽

Baseline Information ◽

The Subject ◽

The Russian Federation ◽

Forecasting Analysis ◽

Analytical System

The article analyzes the features of forecasting analysis of the socio-economic development of the RF subject (the Astrakhan region is taken as an example). The article describes the process of conducting analysis of coming data and forecasting; shows the stages of the process (forming a purpose of the study, collecting participating explanatory variables; accumulation of important statistical data; analyzing forecast figures using a certain predicting method; forming and visualizing analysis and prediction reports), requirements to baseline information and most common methods of socio-economic forecast. The existing relationship and interaction between the forecasting indicators should be taken to consideration in order to obtain well-coordinated and consistent data forecasts. On the basis of the analytical platform Deductor there has been developed the information-analytical system, its purpose is running of the script proposed by an analyst, and creating reports. The system calculates the forecasts, which are then combined into one data set. This method is based on information about the model, which allows selecting the optimal forecast with a minimum error.

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»Judenkrankheiten«. Eine methodologische Orientierung im Diskursdschungel

Aschkenas ◽

10.1515/asch-2019-0002 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

pp. 3-25

Author(s):

Eberhard Wolff

Keyword(s):

Dimensional Model ◽

Anti Semitism ◽

Biomedical Discourse ◽

The Subject

Abstract The article suggests ways of dealing with the intricate discourse on »Jewish Diseases« from antiquity up to the present - both within and beyond anti-Semitism. Firstly, it presents a four-dimensional model that systemizes the different ways in which the sources talk about the subject. In employing this model the article develops images of Jews and Judaism constructed by them. Secondly, the article distinguishes between a »documenting« and a »deconstructive« way in which the sources are used in the humanities. However, since sources dealing with »Jewish Diseases« are always biased and based on subjective premises, the article pleads for investigating the latter. This even applies to the modern biomedical discourse, for instance on »genetic Jewish Diseases«, which promotes the biologisation and essentialisation of what it means to be Jewish.

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Sociological analysis on the discourse of crisis in art

Global Journal on Humanities and Social Sciences ◽

10.18844/gjhss.v0i0.273 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

İnan Keser ◽

Nimet Keser

Keyword(s):

20Th Century ◽

The State ◽

Sociological Analysis ◽

Historical Continuity ◽

Sociology Of Art ◽

Long Time ◽

The Subject ◽

Definition Of ◽

In The Beginning

For about a hundred and fifty years, it has been continuously expressed that art has been facing a deadly crisis and this crisis roots itself from the reality that there exists no concrete answer to the question of ‘what is art’. However related with the non-existence of consensus on what art is, it’s nothing more than a weak understanding to claim that it is impossible to talk about art. Thus, it can be acknowledged that the continuous repetition of the question of ‘what is art’ and non-existence of consensus on this subject is a clear proof of existence of a sharp struggle in art; and the state of non-consensus and historical continuity of the struggle can be acknowledged as the main source of dynamism of art. For this reason, in this study, it is acknowledged that non-existence of a concrete definition of art is a historical incident; and this controversial state about what art is and calling it the crisis of art itself was made the subject of a sociological analysis. In this analysis, it is concluded that; the actual crisis is not the crisis of art but that of aesthetics’; and that this crisis roots itself from the replacement of aesthetics regime (which dominated art for a very long time) with the non-aesthetic ‘artist regime’ in the beginning of 20th century and the nonfunctioning of aesthetics by this new regime. Keywords: art, sociology of art, aesthetics, art regime, artistic change.

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The Jews, the Revolution, and the Old Regime in French Anti-Semitism and Durkheim's Sociology

Sociological Theory ◽

10.1111/j.1467-9558.2011.01397.x ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 29 (4) ◽

pp. 248-271 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Chad Alan Goldberg

Keyword(s):

French Revolution ◽

Emile Durkheim ◽

Sociological Perspective ◽

French Society ◽

Old Regime ◽

Anti Semitism ◽

Alternative Vision ◽

The Relationship ◽

The French Revolution

The relationship between European sociology and European anti-Semitism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is investigated through a case study of one sociologist, Émile Durkheim, in a single country, France. Reactionary and radical forms of anti-Semitism are distinguished and contrasted to Durkheim's sociological perspective. Durkheim's remarks about the Jews directly addressed anti-Semitic claims about them, their role in French society, and their relationship to modernity. At the same time, Durkheim was engaged in a reinterpretation of the French Revolution and its legacies that indirectly challenged other tenets of French anti-Semitism. In sum, Durkheim's work contains direct and indirect responses to reactionary and radical forms of anti-Semitism, and together these responses form a coherent alternative vision of the relationship between modernity and the Jews.

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Die Programmierung des Vergessens - Massenmedien und Geschichtsbewußtsein

Communications ◽

10.1515/comm-1987-0308 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Maximilian Gottschlich

Keyword(s):

Political Parties ◽

National Socialism ◽

The United States ◽

Anti Semitism ◽

Historical Processes ◽

Current Events ◽

The Media ◽

Second Year ◽

Public Reaction ◽

Full Swing

SummaryThe election of Kurt Waldheim as Austrian Federal President in June 1986 as well as Austrian public reaction to western criticism, have made one thing clear: More than 40 years after the catastrophe of National Socialism, the mechanisms of forgetting and ignoring are still in full swing in Austria. Guilty for the collective inability to remember, the inability to realize Austria’s culpable involvement in the Nazi dictatorship and thus for the current neurosis, the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism, are the silent Church, and particularly the political parties and the Austrian media. In the second year after Waldheim’s election - if one analyzes the structures of public communication in Austria - there is less talk than ever of dealing with history, enlightenment, or even “sad work”. Public opinion emphasizes chauvinism of the Alpine republic, hatred of Jews, and hostility toward the United States. In addition, basic media difficulties can be seen in handling the past, particularly the difficulty to make historical processes visible in the abundance of shots of current events, and the focusing of the media on what is going on here and now.

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The Anti-Semitic Disturbances on Corfu and Zakynthos in 1891 and their Socio-political Consequences

The Historical Review/La Revue Historique ◽

10.12681/hr.212 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 4 ◽

pp. 157

Author(s):

Eftychia Liata

Keyword(s):

National Level ◽

Greek Literature ◽

Ionian Islands ◽

Political Consequences ◽

Archival Material ◽

Anti Semitism ◽

The Subject

The text below is a summary of my book Η Κέρκυρα και η Ζάκυνθο&sigmaf; στον κυκλώνα του αντισημιτισμού. Η συκοφαντία για το αίμα του 1891 [Corfu and Zakynthos in a tornado of anti-Semitism: the ghezera of 1891], published in 2006 by the Institute for Neohellenic Research / NHRF, on the subject of the anti-Semitic incidents that broke out in the Spring of 1891 on those two Ionian Islands. Based on hitherto unknown archival material (public documents, diary entries, private texts) and press publications of the day, while at the same time making use of the scarce available bibliography, this study endeavours to reconstruct the events in the light of fresh data, pose questions and propose answers for the causes and the mechanisms leading to the aggravation of the situation, the outbreak of violence and the multifaceted consequences thereof, not only on the local but also the national level. The study also records the depiction of the events through contemporary and subsequent works of historiography, as well as their recasting in Greek literature to this day.

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