Edouard Drumont, Jewish France Paris, 1886, first edition

Edouard Drumont, Jewish France Paris, 1886, first edition

La France Juive - Jewish France - A Treatise on Contemporary History By Edouard Drumont. Published by FLAMMARION Paris 1886. first edition.

The anti-Semitic book of Edward Drumont (1844-1917). The bestseller through which Drumont bought his fame in the world. The book is a kind of "Shulchan Aruch" for hatred of Jews and sold within a year about 100,000 copies. Drumont, who was enthusiastic about his growing publication, called anti-Semitism "the beautiful hatred", In his anti-Semitic descriptions he mentioned, among other things, the epidemics of jaundice and anemia that in his opinion were created by affecting Jewish parasites and weakening the "noble races" [A theory that was the domain of the propagators of Nazi anti-Semitism in Germany on the eve of the Holocaust]. Dremont also blames the Jews for the moral low of all of Europe by the secret conspiracy theory shared by the Jews. He also blames the Jews for all the troubles of France and calls for their removal from French society. The great publication of the book gave Drimon a worldwide name - Until 1945 the book was printed in about two hundred editions.

Edouard Drumont [Edouard Adolphe Drumont 1844-1917] founded the Anti-Semitic League of France, published the anti-Semitic newspaper 'La libre Parole', wrote pamphlets and published many books against the Jews. At the time of the publication of the Dreyfus Affair, he was one of the greatest proponents of hatred who took a sharp and hostile stand against Dreyfus and the Jews in general, and called for the departure of Jewish officers from the French army .

308 pages. 18 cm. Gilt lettering and gold rings on spine, leather spine, stains, good condition.