Friday, March 30, 2012

I Have No Trouble Being Both French and Jewish

Levy?s view, as an American journalist, is almost Manichean, obscuring the complexity of French society. It ignores the fact that Napoleon was the first in Europe to emancipate the Jews; that during the Dreyfus affair, France was cut in half and those who supported Dreyfus won; and that if the Nazi occupation saw many French collaborate, it also saw other French from the left and right risk their lives to save Jews, my parents among them.

Source: http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=aa0cdbc3d8d26694a06bfafd54e0adf3

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