Of course antisemitism didn't magically disappear after the war, but I don't think that's relevant, because it had disappeared from the main media and the intel

Of course antisemitism didn't magically disappear after the war, but I don't think that's relevant, because it had disappeared from the main media and the intellectual circles. Even when Poujade and Le Pen briefly gave antisemitism a new public voice at the end of the 50s, it was in the margins of politics, and it had no impact on the literary circles. An historian specialized on this, Tal Bruttmann, wrote that « après-guerre, l'antisémitisme n'avait pas bonne presse. » Romain Gary was living in Los Angeles when he began writing in English. Being a diplomat, he had lived the five previous years mostly in New York and London. So if he really felt an antisemitic criticism of his works was widely shared in France, I think it could only come from the newspapers or from other writers.