Originally published in French Studies 37:4 (1983). Diderot and the Jews. By Leon Schwartz. (Sara F. Yoseloff Memorial Publications). London and Toronto: Associated University Presses. 1981. 206 pp. 7 ill. In some of his writings Diderot vehemently denigrates Jews and Judaism as crude, primitive, obscurantist and unethical. Yet, often, his disparagement can be seen as an…