We investigate some aspects of the history of antisemitism in France, one of the cradles of modern antisemitism, using diachronic word embeddings. We constructed a large corpus of French books and periodicals issues that contain a keyword related to Jews and performed a diachronic word embedding over the 1789-1914 period. We studied the changes over time in the semantic spaces of 4 target words and performed embedding projections over 6 streams of antisemitic discourse. This allowed us to track the evolution of antisemitic bias in the religious, economic, socio-politic, racial, ethic and conspiratorial domains. Projections show a trend of growing antisemitism, especially in the years starting in the mid-80s and culminating in the Dreyfus affair. Our analysis also allows us to highlight the peculiar adverse bias towards Judaism in the broader context of other religions.

During the 1930s, historiography in the sector of studies on Corsica grew considerably owing to the efforts of Gioacchino Volpe and his students at the Scuola di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea. Corsica was situated within the Mediterranean political space, and it acquired a geopolitical importance that shifted it outside its circumscribed regional context to the centre of the Mediterranean interests of the great European powers. This article analyses how Gioacchino Volpe and his students at the Scuola configured the question of the 'Mediterranean political space' as a matter of historical interest by analysing the case of Corsica. Rather than restricting themselves to a regionalist approach in their research on Corsica, Volpe and his students framed the island's history in the more general context of European and Mediterranean history.

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L'autore intende analizzare la ricezione di Pierre-Joseph Proudhon da parte degli antifascisti italiani esuli in Francia negli anni tra le due guerre, prendendo in esame l'interpretazione del pensiero proudhoniano fornita dal sociologo russo Georges Gurvitch. Fu grazie alla mediazione di Gurvitch che fuorusciti italiani come Andrea Caffi e Silvio Trentin accolsero con favore le intuizioni proudhoniane relative al "Diritto economico". La nozione gurvitchiana di "Diritto sociale" (rielaborazione del "Diritto economico" proudhoniano) - l'unico principio normativo in grado di governare in maniera equa il corpo sociale stabilendo una condizione di equilibro all'interno del conflitto - ha suscitato una grande influenza sulla cultura antitotalitaria che gravitava intorno agli ambienti giellisti. L'autore illustra le differenti sensibilitÀ espresse dai fuorusciti a partire da un'indagine dei loro scritti rintracciando i riferimenti teorici presenti nell'opera proudhoniana e nel lavoro di Gurvitch.