Language:
Italian
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Storia Contemporanea
Angaben zur Quelle:
22,6 (1991) 1159-1191
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism in literature
;
French literature History and criticism
Abstract:
A paper presented at a conference in Rome, October 1991. Discusses the ideology of the French fascists connected with the antisemitic periodical "Je Suis Partout" as the exacerbation of a traditional trend traceable to the Action Française, Maurras' cult of intelligence allied to power, and Drumont's antisemitism. Traces the ideas expressed in the works of Rebatet, Brasillach, and Céline to the change of vision triggered by Romanticism with its mystique of the nation as race. States, however, that these writers were contemptuous of the tradition of the Right and that their anti-Jewish fury was due to their painful uncertainty over nation and identity as well as to the fear of decline and catastrophe. Their confusion between the alleged Jewish and German dangers was resolved by the German occupation, when the only extant danger was the Jews. Recalls the anti-Jewish stereotypes of the group, among them anthropologist George Montandon's "mestizo race" and Georges Saint-Bonnet's assertions of racial promiscuity and Jewish parasitism.
Note:
Appeared also in "Stato nazionale ed emancipazione ebraica", 1992.
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