Szajkowski himself had produced scores of studies that attempted to understand the history of Jewish…

Szajkowski himself had produced scores of studies that attempted to understand the history of Jewish emancipation, assimilation, and antisemitism in France from every possible angle. His questions were driven by the sources themselves, which he ferreted out with the nose of an investigative journalist. Szajkowski’s impact as an archive dealer was perhaps even more significant than his scholarship,…