Language:
English
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal
Angaben zur Quelle:
14,1 (1997) 57-92
Keywords:
Dreyfus, Alfred,
;
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
Trials (Treason)
Abstract:
The Australian Catholic press was not unified or characterized by a clear and consistent policy on the Dreyfus case, and the case was far from being one of its major concerns. The Catholic press was predominantly Irish; it was inclined to compare the persecution of Jews worldwide with that of the Irish. This view was manifested in the press's philosemitism at the time of the Kishinev pogrom in 1903. The press was inclined to regard the Catholic Church as a victim and exonerate it from all possible sins; thus, although it admitted that some injustice was suffered by Dreyfus, it denied that the injustice was motivated by antisemitism. Some papers (e.g. "Austral Light, " in 1900) deplored the fact that the British press used the case as a weapon against France and Catholicism, while Britain itself was guilty of much injustice against its political foes. Although the Catholic press had some misconceptions about the Jews and sometimes uncritically reprinted French anti-Jewish materials, it did not retail extreme antisemitic propaganda current in the French Church.
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