About
Professor emeritus at Paris 1 University, his recent publications include La République et le cochon, Éditions du Seuil, 2013; Léon Blum, un portrait, Éditions du Seuil, 2016; La Leçon de Vichy. Une histoire personnelle, Éditions du Seuil, 2019; Les Larmes de l'Histoire. De Kichinev à Pittsburgh, Gallimard, 2022; Marcel Proust.
Latest publication
Jewish Archives, French History
Reviewed: Mathias Dreyfuss, Aux sources juives de l’histoire de France, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2021, 414 pp., €26.
- By Pierre Birnbaum,
- Translated by Susannah Dale
In Books & Ideas (2024/1)
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The “people” against the “oligarchy”: the discourse of La France insoumise
In Cités (2017/4 No 72)
Claire Zalc, Tal Bruttmann, Ivan Ermakoff, and Nicolas Mariot (Ed.), Pour une micro-histoire de la Shoah (Paris: Seuil, 2012), 306 p., ISBN 978-2021044102
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2015/2 No 62-2/3)
The “reluctance” toward Durkheim: Raymond Aron and his election to the Collège de France
In L’Année sociologique (2022/2 Vol. 72)
The French Ruling Elites Called into Question
- By Jean Arthuis,
- Blandine Barret-Kriegel,
- Pierre Birnbaum,
- et al.
In Le Débat (1989/1 No 53)
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Jewish Archives, French History
Reviewed: Mathias Dreyfuss, Aux sources juives de l’histoire de France, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2021, 414 pp., €26.
- By Pierre Birnbaum,
- Translated by Susannah Dale
In Books & Ideas (2024/1)
The “reluctance” toward Durkheim: Raymond Aron and his election to the Collège de France
In L’Année sociologique (2022/2 Vol. 72)
Léon Poliakov and Vichy
In Cités (2019/2 No 78)
The “people” against the “oligarchy”: the discourse of La France insoumise
In Cités (2017/4 No 72)
Claire Zalc, Tal Bruttmann, Ivan Ermakoff, and Nicolas Mariot (Ed.), Pour une micro-histoire de la Shoah (Paris: Seuil, 2012), 306 p., ISBN 978-2021044102
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2015/2 No 62-2/3)
Defending the “Strong” State: Reflections on the Place of the Religious in France and the United States
In Revue française de sociologie (2011/3 Vol. 52)
Civic Nationalism or the Rights of Citizens?
Concerning Two Uncommon Views of the American Flag
In Raisons politiques (2010/1 No 37)
The Decline of the Strong State and New Anti-Semitic Mobilization in Contemporary France
In Pôle Sud (2004/2 No 21)
The French Ruling Elites Called into Question
- By Jean Arthuis,
- Blandine Barret-Kriegel,
- Pierre Birnbaum,
- et al.
In Le Débat (1989/1 No 53)
The Institutionalization of the Revolution
Abbé Grégoire and the Fate of Jewish Identity
In Le Débat (1989/1 No 53)