%0 Journal Article
%T Next year in Jerusalem? ¡®La nouvelle jud¨¦ophobie¡¯, neo
%A Adi S. Bharat
%J French Cultural Studies
%@ 1740-2352
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0957155818773977
%X ¨¦liette Ab¨¦cassis, one of the principal flagbearers of a nascent contemporary Jewish-French literature, has written a novel entitled Alyah, which engages in a series of reflections on the future of Jewish life in France. Among other themes, Ab¨¦cassis tackles the memory of Jewish life in North Africa, especially in Morocco, the relationship between antisemitism and anti-Zionism, the affective value of the Israeli¨CPalestinian conflict for Jews and Muslims in France, and ¡®la nouvelle jud¨¦ophobie¡¯. In this article, I read Alyah in its socio-political context in order to suggest that, while Ab¨¦cassis highlights at times the potential for Jewish-Muslim solidarity, the novel ends up reproducing an oppositional, conflictual binary of Jews versus Muslims ¨C something that Maud Mandel has termed a ¡®narrative of polarisation¡¯
%K antisemitism
%K Israeli¨CPalestinian conflict in France
%K Jewish-French literature Jewish¨CMuslim relations
%K ¡®la nouvelle jud¨¦ophobie¡¯
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0957155818773977