Language:
English
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Historical Reflections - Réflexions Historiques
Angaben zur Quelle:
35,3 (2009) 85-94
Keywords:
Dreyfus, Alfred,
;
Trials (Treason)
;
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
In 1899, fearing an international boycott of the World's Fair, which was to open in Paris in 1900, President Emile Loubet pardoned Dreyfus. The victory of the Dreyfusards turned into a victory of the anti-clerical camp in France, whose goal was separation between church and state. Such a measure could have been a hard blow to the country's Jewish religious life; thus, the more conservative part of French Jewry chose to dissociate itself from its former allies, the anti-clerical Dreyfusards, and to maintain neutrality concerning the planned governmental measures.
DOI:
10.3167/hrrh.2009.350306
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