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**At long last, the untold story of the mysterious Mrs Brontë.**
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The chances of Cornish gentlewoman Maria Branwell even meeting the poor Irish curate Patrick Brontë in Regency England, let alone falling passionately in love, were remote.
Yet Maria and Patrick did meet, making a life together as devoted lovers and doting parents in the heartland of the industrial revolution. An unlikely romance and novel wedding were soon followed by the birth of six children. They included Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, the most gifted literary siblings the world has ever known.
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Qu’elles soient joyeuses ou tragiques, visibles ou non, les ruptures rythment notre existence, nous transforment, nous remettent profondément en question.
Comment conjuguer ces « bifurcations » de nos vies que sont les ruptures avec l’idée de notre identité, une et constante ? Nous révèlent-elles la multiplicité de nos identités possibles, ou le fait que nous nous affirmions progressivement, au fur et à mesure de ces « accidents » de la vie ? Nous épurent-elles ou nous démolissent-elles ?
Pour la philosophe Claire Marin, la définition de notre être est tout autant dans nos sorties de route que dans nos lignes droites, dans les accrocs au contrat que dans le contrat lui-même. Naissances ou deuils, séparation ou nouvel amour, besoins d’ailleurs nos oscillations, nos vacillements fragilisent nos représentations, ébranlent nos certitudes, certes. Mais ils soulignent aussi fondamentalement la place de l’imprévisible, et questionnent notre capacité à supporter l’incertitude, à composer avec la catastrophe et, en les surmontant, à parfois démarrer une nouvelle vie.
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From an award‑winning journalist, a provocative, deeply reported exposé of the history and present crisis of anti‑Semitism in France—and its dire message for the rest of the world.
What is the connection between a rise in the number of random attacks against Jews on the streets of France and strategically planned terrorist acts targeting the French population at large? Before the attacks on Charlie Hebdo, the Bataclan night club, and others made international headlines, Marc Weitzmann had noticed a surge of seemingly random acts of violence against the Jews of France. His disturbing and eye-opening new book, Hate, proposes that both the small-scale and large-scale acts of violence have their roots in not one, but two very specific forms of populism an extreme and violent ethos of hate spread among the Muslim post-colonial suburban developments on the one hand, and the deeply-rooted French ultra-conservatism of the far right. Weitzmann’s shrewd on-the-ground reporting is woven throughout with the history surrounding the legacies of the French Revolution, the Holocaust, and Gaulist “Arab-French policy.”
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""The answer lies in France’s societal and economic decline over the past 30 years. Since 1988, the French unemployment rate has averaged 9.4 percent, significantly higher than the OECD’s 6.6 percent, driven by poor GDP growth of 1.6 percent. France has missed the globalization opportunity, partly due to notoriously rigid labor laws and an inadequate education system. France has also arguably missed the digital transformation. Venture capital investments accounted for only 0.06 percent of France’s GDP, compared to 0.4 percent in the US and Israel.
Beyond its economic woes, France had been initially unwilling and later unable to counter the radicalization of its Muslim youth. The penetration of satellite dishes, then social media, and the presence of many radical imams, coupled with France’s weak law enforcement culture, have yielded disastrous results. According to a survey conducted by the ADL in 2015, 17 percent of French people “harbor antisemitic attitudes,†but this number increases to 49 percent within the Muslim community."
The above is a quote from a March5, 2019 Op-Ed in Algemeiner by Benjamin Canet. This pretty much validates the views of Marc Weitzman in his depressing "HATE". I am a Francophile who reads French and has quite a few friends in Paris and the South. they too are worried about the future of France.
I particularly like the way the author describes the historical context of French anti-Semitism, which helps explain how the Jews were caught between a 'rock and a hard-place'. The Jews are regarded by both French Ultra-Nationalists and the unassimilated Moslems as "The Other""
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Hate The Rising Tide of AntiSemitism in France and What It Means for Us edition by Marc Weitzmann Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews
Very good I have hard book copy Can’t I have it on when book isn’t with me
Weitzmann's book is a rather tough read, and limited in scope to the last ~30 years of anti-Semitism (although you could argue that a comprehensive book on France and anti-Semitism would be a fairly large book.) It does bring a lot into context with the number of Muslims in France, a vast majority of them who see themselves as French and have assimilated over the years to be members of French society, and the schism between those who see themselves as Muslim first with those people stoking tensions. Add that to the persistence of the far right wing in blaming Jews for the sorrows of the world and you start to feel that there may be a time where the last Jews have left France for good, finding themselves fleeing persecution yet again. However, the book feels like it's missing more analysis and a plan to move forward.
I did appreciate the historical context - from France's history of involvement in Algeria, the end of the Cold War, the brutal murder of Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam to start the horror eventually leading up to the Charlie Hebdo and the November 2015 attacks. I felt like Weitzmann was trying too hard to dovetail this current wave of anti-Semitism into rising nationalism in Europe and in the US, instead of seeing nationalism as a byproduct of segments of the population who refuse cultural assimilation. So I'm torn and I was hoping for much more. It certainly was helpful and informative for the historical background, but the book finishes with a shrug and a whimper.
"The answer lies in France’s societal and economic decline over the past 30 years. Since 1988, the French unemployment rate has averaged 9.4 percent, significantly higher than the OECD’s 6.6 percent, driven by poor GDP growth of 1.6 percent. France has missed the globalization opportunity, partly due to notoriously rigid labor laws and an inadequate education system. France has also arguably missed the digital transformation. Venture capital investments accounted for only 0.06 percent of France’s GDP, compared to 0.4 percent in the US and Israel.
Beyond its economic woes, France had been initially unwilling and later unable to counter the radicalization of its Muslim youth. The penetration of satellite dishes, then social media, and the presence of many radical imams, coupled with France’s weak law enforcement culture, have yielded disastrous results. According to a survey conducted by the ADL in 2015, 17 percent of French people “harbor antisemitic attitudes,†but this number increases to 49 percent within the Muslim community."
The above is a quote from a March5, 2019 Op-Ed in Algemeiner by Benjamin Canet. This pretty much validates the views of Marc Weitzman in his depressing "HATE". I am a Francophile who reads French and has quite a few friends in Paris and the South. they too are worried about the future of France.
I particularly like the way the author describes the historical context of French anti-Semitism, which helps explain how the Jews were caught between a 'rock and a hard-place'. The Jews are regarded by both French Ultra-Nationalists and the unassimilated Moslems as "The Other"
Marc Weitzmann’s book "Hate" details the pathology of anti Semitic hate in France tracing its roots from the 19th century through mid 2018. Its focus - and force - is on the perpetrators and their violence occurring since 2002; the Toulouse attack in 2012, the two attacks against the older women (Sarah Halimi, Mirielle Knoll) in Paris in 2017, the “Charlie Hebdo," Hyper Cacher killings, the November 2015 attack commonly referred to as the Bataclan in the 10th Arrondisement, and, the Nice truck attack. He finds that " the impulsive anti-Semitic violence serving as a basis for the Islamist propaganda is itself a pathological manifestation of an anti-Semitic narrative at work inside the Muslim world today." The author is a splendid writer, and, creative in tying the innate violence of Islamist anti Semitism to the underlying motivations of the perpetrators and their vacant lives in the "cites" of Paris and its outskirts.
No mention is made of the horrific “Tree of Life†shooting in Pittsburgh in October 2018 because it occurred after the publication.
The book is French in tone, structure, analysis and philosophy though as explained at the end, was published first in the United States and then in France.
This book is written in English by a French writer, and with the exception of a very few odd phrases, is written masterfully.
It's about anti-Semitism in France, something with a long and not so noble history. The book subtitle is "The Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism in France" but it's really more of a historical survey with analysis applying to modern times and recent events.
The author makes a convincing case, although he draws a bit too much on personal experience and his own family history. That's the only real weakness in the book. I don't see evidence of anti-Muslim or anti-Christian bias; the book is fair and balanced and reaches something of an inevitable conclusion.
Of course that conclusion is probably obvious without ever reading the book. But what the book does is provide a great deal of context and a means of understanding why anti-Semitism is on the rise. It does not (at least not really) provide a solution, but I don't know that the author alone can solve a very old problem.
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