Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish History
Angaben zur Quelle:
10,2 (1996) 89-134
Schlagwort(e):
Disraeli, Benjamin,
;
Antisemitism in the press
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Antisemitism History 19th century
;
Jews Caricatures and cartoons
Kurzfassung:
During his second ministry, in 1874-80, Disraeli experienced more serious antisemitic attacks than at any time during his preceding career. The cause of this outbreak of antisemitic sentiments was Disraeli's pro-Turkish attitude in the 1870s. This stance permitted his political opponents to allege that Disraeli supported the Muslim Turks as a crypto-Jew, that he was un-English and anti-Christian. Shows how political cartoons in the British satiric journals "Fun", "Punch", and "Judy", playing on his "Semitic appearance" and on traditional English anti-Jewish stereotypes (Shylock, peddler, ritual murderer, Devil), buttressed the image of the anti-English, anti-Christian "secret Jew" who, ruling the country, works against its interests. The cartoons helped liberal society to sublimate its prejudices against Anglo-Jewry, and to transform the less malignant prejudice to a "mythic" or "chimerical" level.
Anmerkung:
Appeared also in "Disraeli's Jewishness" (2002) 105-161.
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