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Pierre Birnbaum

Pierre Birnbaum is a historian and political sociologist who is professor emeritus at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

  • Charles Joseph Staniland, engraving of Jewish immigrants arriving in New York, 1892
    Charles Joseph Staniland, engraving of Jewish immigrants arriving in New York, 1892
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    Exile or Diaspora?

    A famous debate between the 20th-century Jewish historians Salo Baron, Yitzhak Baer, and Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi eerily prefigures the current rise of political antisemitism in America

    byPierre Birnbaum
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