Jean-Paul Sartre, Réflexions sur la question juive [Anti-Semite and Jew]

Yoann Malinge (Catholic University of Louvain)

Ed. by Hugo Azerad, University of Cambridge
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.07: French Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

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Philosophy (any)

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First circulation or publication 1946

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France (Country of Origin)

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French anti-Semitism was made very apparent through the Dreyfus affair which dominated much cultural and political discussion between 1894 and 1906. The First World War fostered a requirement for national unity but anti-Semitism resurfaced in the 1930s, fuelled by economic difficulties, and provided a rallying cry for such right-wing and ultra-Catholic movements as Action française. Following France’s defeat by Germany in 1940, the Vichy regime imposed an anti-Semitic régime and actively collaborated in the deportation of Jews to concentration camps. In Anti-Semite and Jew, Sartre analyses and denounces this French anti-Semitism, critiquing the masquerade that anti-Semitism was a Nazi import.

French anti-Semitism was made very apparent…

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Citation: Malinge, Yoann. "Réflexions sur la question juive". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 May 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11105, accessed 31 October 2024.]

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