Language:
English
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
French Historical Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
26,4 (2003) 661-686
Keywords:
Drach, Paul,
;
Deutz, Simon
;
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
Christian converts from Judaism
Abstract:
In post-Napoleonic France, despite the egalitarianism proclaimed by the French Revolution, conservative Catholics persisted in attempts to implement a Catholic France. The case of two Jewish converts to Catholicism who were brothers-in-law, David Drach and Simon Deutz, illuminates this situation. Drach attained fame writing in praise of Catholicism while denigrating Judaism. After Deutz helped French authorities catch the Duchess de Berry, the Monarchists' last hope, he was branded a Judas by much of French society, despite his conversion. Suggests that the view that a Jew always remains a Jew may have influenced early 20th-century secular racist antisemitism.
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