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Through the foreword by Judith Butler, the text examines who is included in the label, who uses it, and under what conditions people are named or name themselves that way. The opening also challenges simplistic genre expectations by treating the title as a philosophical and historical problem that shapes what follows.","a semite  \nA Memoir of Algeria  \nDenis Guenoun  \nForeword by Judith Butler  \nA Semite  \nA Semite A Memoir of Algeria  \nDenis Guénoun  \nTranslated from French by Ann and William Smock  \ncolumbia university press  \nnew york  \nCet ouvrage a bénéficié du soutien des Programmes d’aide à la publication del’Institut français.  \nThis work, published as part ofa program of aid for publication, received support from the Institut français.  \nCet ouvrage, publié dans le cadre du programme d’aide à la publication, bénéficie du soutien du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et du Service Culturel del’Ambassade de France répresenté aux Etats-Unis.  \nThis work received support from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States through their publishing assistance program.  \nColumbia University Press Publishers Since 1893  \nNew York Chichester, West Sussex [cup.columbia.edu](cup.columbia.edu)  \nCopyright © 2002 Circe  \nTranslation copyright © 2014 Columbia University Press All rights reserved  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Guénoun, Denis, 1946– author.  \n[Sémite. English]  \nA Semite : a memoir of Algeria / by Denis Guénoun ; translated from French by Ann and William Smock.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \nisbn 978-0-231-16402-3 (cloth : alk. paper)— isbn 978-0-231-53724-7 (electronic)  \n1. Guénoun, Denis, 1946– 2. Jews—Algeria—Oran—Biography. 3. Algeria—History—Revolution, 1954–1962—Personal narratives. 4. Jews, Algerian—France—Biography. I. Smock, Ann, 1944– translator. II. Smock, William, translator. III. Title.  \nDS135.A3G8413 2013  \n944’.0049240651—dc23 [B]  \n2013023432  \nColumbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acidfree paper.  \nThis book is printed on paper with recycled content.  \nPrinted in the United States of America c 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nJacket design: Noah Arlow  \nReferences to websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor Columbia University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared.  \nfor Léo,  \nHélio and Nathan, Sarah and Faustine, Abel, Marius, Lucas, and Antoine  \ncontents  \nForeword by Judith Butler ix  \nChronology of French/Algerian History xxi  \nI. December 1, 1940 1  \nII. June 22, 1961  \n67  \nIII. November 6, 1989  \nforeword  \nJudith Butler  \nThis book is clearly a memoir, but settling on the genre does very little to orient us toward what is to come. The title, A Semite, seems to identify one among several Semites. And yet, several questions emerge as the story begins: What is a “Semite”? And who is included within its terms? Who talks this way? And under what conditions is anyone called a “Semite” or describes oneself through this term? The word, of course, haunts from the start, since we know it most clearly through the history of anti-Semitism.“Anti-Semitism” is a confusing word for many reasons. 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