Language:
French
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Archives Juives
Angaben zur Quelle:
42,1 (2009) 51-68
Keywords:
Drumont, Édouard,
;
Rothschild family
;
Jews History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Discusses Drumont's contribution to the stereotype of the Jewish bourgeois, the strength of the myth of the "Jewish Republic", and Jewish reactions to antisemitism in France in the late 19th century. Argues that Drumont invented modern antisemitism by associating the Republic with the Jews and the Jews with money. Traces the personal background and development of his antisemitism, and underscores social inferiority and envy as his motives. In the 1870s he developed the figure of the Jewish financier, who had supposedly penetrated into the heart of the state, and from there undermined French society. Discusses the "Rothschild myth", which continued leftist and clerical/ultra-conservative themes, and which Drumont placed at the center of his propaganda. Shows that he also used this myth to stigmatize the aristocracy. In discussing Jewish reactions, emphasizes that many proud Jews broke with the common attitude of "scornful silence" and even physically attacked antisemitic enemies, including Drumont. Mentions the creation of the Comité de défence contre l'antisémitisme in 1894 as an example of Jewish activism during the Dreyfus Affair. In the first two decades of the 20th century Drumont lost the support of the left and many moderates, and became associated only with reactionary clerics and royalists.
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