Jacques Derrida's Early Experiences With Anti-Semitism

Here, Derrida recounts pernicious anti-Semitism in Vichy controlled France in the 1940s (he and his family lived in Algeria) ... not only was he made victim by classmates but he and other Jewish students and instructors were expelled from their public schools ... however, 'paradoxically', as he says, he did not assimilate into the Algerian Jewish community - thus feeling doubly excluded... from such marginalization, Derrida would later focus on the 'secondary' notion of a 'margin' - which presupposes a coherent, acceptable, 'proper body' - in the essay "Tympan," (from "Margins of Philosophy") Derrida playfully puts this idea into effect...