In the Name of the Other: Reflections on the Coming Anti-Semitism
Alain Finkielkraut
2004
1. Vigilance
For fifty years, Jews of the West were protected by the shield of Nazism. As Bernanos wrote, Hitler had given antisemitism a bad name.
We supposed this bad name to be permanent. Yet it seems to have been only temporary. In hindsight, what we took for granted was just a détente. And it is in France, the European country with the greatest…
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