Language:
French
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Archives Juives
Angaben zur Quelle:
38,1 (2005) 114-128
Keywords:
France.
;
Jews Politics and government 19th century
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Antisemitism Political aspects
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Antisemitism History 19th century
Abstract:
States that, before the 1890s, antisemitism was non-existent in the French National Assembly. Absolute support for freedom of speech, and the beginning of the Dreyfus Affair, explain the appearance of antisemitism in the Chamber in 1895. Two interpellations by antisemitic deputies - Théodore Denis, close to Drumont, and Viscount d'Hugues - demanded the exclusion of Jews from the civil service. Both denounced what they called the "Jewish stranglehold" on France. Denis accused Jewish deputies of working for Jewish interests. Responses by the socialist Gustave Rouanet and the Jewish anarchist Alfred Naquet connected the Jewish and the social questions and emphasized the incoherence of antisemitism. Contends that the government's mollifying response, and the fact that the antisemites managed to occupy the Chamber for two days with their agenda, was a victory for them, though the interpellations had no legal consequences.
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