Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Canadian Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
12 (2004) 73-96
Schlagwort(e):
Antisemitism History 1500-
;
Jews
Kurzfassung:
Discusses the 1910 trial of J.E. Plamondon for libeling the Jews of Quebec city. The French-Canadian notary, whose views were influenced by Edouard Drumont, had delivered an inflammatory speech to an antisemitic Catholic youth group. He spoke about the Jews committing ritual murder and engaging in usury, and about issues relevant to local Catholics. He also called for a boycott of Quebec's Jews, then numbering 75 households. Some Jews were attacked; two Jewish businessmen (including Ortenberg) claimed serious economic losses to their businesses. In 1910 the court rejected the plaintiffs' rights as individuals to sue for libel of their whole people; but in 1914 a higher court found for them as members of a small minority, and fined the defendant. The trial showed Canadian Jewish efforts to combat antisemitism, although its growth in Quebec was hardly affected. Canadian Jewish newspapers evinced more interest in the contemporary Beilis blood libel trial in Russia. Concludes that, while Canadian Jews in the first part of the 20th century did not succeed in obtaining real protection from the courts or in having anti-hate legislation passed, the Quebec case did reveal their concern about antisemitism and pointed toward later attempts to introduce anti-hate legislation that was finally passed in Canada after the Holocaust.
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