Sprache:
Französisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Tsafon; revue d'études juives du Nord
Angaben zur Quelle:
6-7 (1991) 41-59
Schlagwort(e):
Jews
;
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Kurzfassung:
Pp. 49-59 trace the surge of antisemitic sentiment in Lille in 1891. At the time, the city's 680 Jews manifested their presence by inaugurating their first synagogue, and the head of the Jewish Consistoire, Frédéric Bère, ran for national elections on Lille's mandate. Two regional Catholic journals, "La Vraie France" and "La Croix du Nord", indulged in antisemitism, while the local "Le Lillois" was entirely built on it. "La Vraie France" expressed its hatred of the Jews in less outrageous terms than "Le Lillois", but was nevertheless virulent in its attacks on Bère. In the latter journal, the Jews were said to monopolize economic and political power, and to be dishonest, foreign, anti-Christian, and a deicide people. "Le Lillois" used Bère's candidacy as an excuse to pour out its antisemitic venom and blame the Jews for all evils. During the electoral campaign many other papers, including socialist ones, expressed some degeree of antisemitism. The Jews' reactions were weak and were not reported in the press. An appeal for intervention sent by Chief Rabbi Emile Cahen to the Archbishop of Cambrai, who was responsible for Lille, was received with some understanding, but the archbishop refused to let his reactions be known to the public.
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