4.0

The topic and goal of this book, to explain historical antisemitism in France and the lasting impact it has had both in France and Europe as a whole, was why I picked up this book. I learned something new!
I was just distracted a lot by the redundancy of many of this books pages. It could have been shorter if it hadn’t kept repeating itself. And I wish it had split the difference, spending half its word count on the story of the dutchess and Deutz and spending the other half really examining in depth the impact the events had on World War II antisemitism. The final examination of antisemitism post-betrayal is crammed into the last few pages and leaves me with more questions than were answered. That’s said, more books like this need to exist and need to be read by more people! Maybe then more people will #StandUpToJewishHate #StandUpToAllHate