Language:
English
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Social Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
13,1 (2006) 110-135
Keywords:
Zola, Émile,
;
Dreyfus, Alfred,
;
Trials (Treason)
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Both visual and verbal images of the pig were used to attack Zola, often considered the pioneer modern intellectual or anti-establishment critic, for his championing of Dreyfus. Points out, however, that the medieval German "Judensau" image had been used to attack Zola decades earlier for his literary naturalism, which was considered degenerate and morally corrupting, as were the Jews in 19th-century European culture. Notes the paradox of the borrowing by a defeated France (1870-71) of an antisemitic image with a long history in the culture of its enemy, Germany. Presents illustrations with antisemitic pig images from the period of the Dreyfus Affair and from medieval texts. During the Dreyfus Affair, right-wing antisemites who used this image associated intellectuals like Zola with Jews, who were viewed as traitors.
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