# Pierre Birnbaum

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'''Pierre Birnbaum''' (1940, [Lourdes](/source/Lourdes)) is a French historian and sociologist.<ref>{{Cite web|language = |title = Pierre Birnbaum, fils reconnaissant de la République|url = http://larepubliquedeslivres.com/birnbaum/|publisher = La République des Livres|year = 2013|accessdate = 2 October 2016}}.</ref>

==Biography==
A graduate of the [Sciences Po](/source/Sciences_Po) (class of 1962, Public Service track),<ref>{{cite web |language=fr |title=Sciences Po Alumni |url=https://sciencespo-alumni.fr/fr/addressbook/fullsearch/index |website=sciencespo-alumni.fr}}</ref> Pierre Birnbaum defended his doctoral dissertation in [Political science](/source/Political_science), titled “The Stratification of Power in the United States”, at the University of Paris in 1966.

His doctoral dissertation, defended in 1974 at [Paris Descartes University](/source/Paris_Descartes_University) under the supervision of François Bourricaud, is titled “The End of Politics”.<ref>{{cite web |title=Catalogue Sudoc |url=https://www.sudoc.fr/174652267 |website=sudoc.abes.fr}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==
*1977: ''Les Sommets de l’État. Essai sur l'élite du pouvoir en France'', Paris, [Éditions du Seuil](/source/%C3%89ditions_du_Seuil), {{ISBN|2-02-004642-3}}.
*1979: {{Cite book|language=fr|title=Genèse du populisme; le peuple et les gros|publisher=Pluriel|series= Pluriel|date=2012 |location= Paris|isbn=978-2-8185-0225-9 |url=http://www.fayard.fr/genese-du-populisme-9782818502259}}.
*1982: ''La Logique de l’État'', [Fayard](/source/Fayard), 234 p. (series: "L’Espace du politique")
*1983: ''The Sociology of the State'', University of Chicago Press
*1984: ''Dimensions du pouvoir'', [Presses Universitaires de France](/source/Presses_Universitaires_de_France), 261 p. (series: "Sociologie d’aujourd’hui")
*1988: ''Un mythe politique : la « République juive ». De Léon Blum à Mendès France'', Fayard.
*1992: ''Les Fous de la République. Histoire politique des Juifs d'État, de Gambetta à Vichy'', Fayard, rééd. "Poche" [Éditions du Seuil](/source/%C3%89ditions_du_Seuil), 1994. {{ISBN|2-02-020505-X}}
*1994: ''L’Affaire Dreyfus : La République en péril'', coll. « [Découvertes Gallimard](/source/D%C3%A9couvertes_Gallimard) » (nº 213), série Histoire. Paris: Gallimard.
*1996: ''The Jews of the Republic: A Political History of State Jews in France from Gambetta to Vichy'', Stanford University Press
*1998: ''La France imaginée. Déclin des rêves unitaires ?'', Fayard.
*1998: {{Cite book|language=fr |title=Le moment antisémite; un tour de la France en 1898|journal=Revue Française de Sociologie |publisher=Pluriel |series= Pluriel|date=1999 |volume=40 |issue=4 |pages=783–785 |location= Paris|isbn=978-2-8185-0438-3 |url=http://www.persee.fr/doc/rfsoc_0035-2969_1999_num_40_4_5227 |last1=Lévy |first1=Clara |doi=10.2307/3322866 |jstor=3322866 }}.
*2006: {{Cite book|language=fr |title=La France aux Français; histoire des haines nationalistes |journal=Politique Étrangère |publisher= Éditions du Seuil|series= XXe|date=1993 |volume=58 |issue=3 |pages=810–811 |location= Paris|isbn=2-02-085913-0 |url=http://www.persee.fr/doc/polit_0032-342x_1993_num_58_3_6289_t1_0810_0000_2 |last1=Arénilla |first1=Louis }}.
*2008: ''Un récit de « meurtre rituel » au Grand Siècle : l'affaire Raphaël Lévy, Metz, 1669'', Fayard.
*2010: ''Face au pouvoir'', [Éditions Galilée](/source/%C3%89ditions_Galil%C3%A9e), {{ISBN|9782718608143}}.
*2012: ''Les Deux Maisons. Les Juifs, l'État et les deux Républiques'', Gallimard {{ISBN|978-2-07-012682-8}}.
*2013: ''La République et le Cochon'', Paris, le Seuil {{ISBN|978-2-02-110865-1}}.
*2015: ''Sur un nouveau moment antisémite'', Fayard, {{ISBN|978-2-213-68598-4}}.
*2015: ''Les Désarrois d’un fou de l’État =: interviews with {{Interlanguage link|Jean Baumgarten|fr}} and {{Interlanguage link|Yves Déloye|fr}}'', Albin Michel {{ISBN|978-2-226-31494-9 }}.
*2016: ''Léon Blum. Un portrait'', Paris, le Seuil, {{ISBN|978-2-02-117426-7}}. - Prix du Livre d'histoire contemporaine - Quartier Latin.

== See also ==
* [History of the Jews in France](/source/History_of_the_Jews_in_France)
* [Antisemitism in 21st-century France](/source/Antisemitism_in_21st-century_France)

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://ce-soir-ou-jamais.france3.fr/?page=emission&id_rubrique=839# Débat TV sur le sport et l'identité nationale] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091122114459/http://ce-soir-ou-jamais.france3.fr/?page=emission&id_rubrique=839 |date=2009-11-22 }} on Ce soir (ou jamais !), France 3, 18/11/09.
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