AJC Applauds Congressional Action Urging Secretary Pompeo to Appoint Anti-Semitism Envoy

This paper explores how Judaism is represented in non-Jewish writers of the nineteenth-century (outstandingly, Walter Scott and George Eliot) and in modernist long novels, such as those by Dorothy Richardson, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Alfred Döblin, Robert Musil, and Thomas Mann, and, in the Latin American novel, Carlos Fuentes and Roberto Bolaño. It finds a relationship between the length of the ‘long’ novel, as a meaningful category in itself (not to be absorbed into other modernist narratives), and the interest that these novels have in Judaism, and in anti-semitism (e.g. in the Dreyfus affair) as something which cannot be easily assimilated into the narratives which the writers mentioned are interested in. The paper investigates the implications of this claim for reading these texts.

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Jewish Question in the Ideology and Political Practice of Russian Monarchists in the Beginning of the 20th Century

Almanac “Essays on Conservatism” ◽

10.24030/24092517-2020-0-1-232-261 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 102 ◽

pp. 232-261

Author(s):

Igor V. Omeliyanchuk

Keyword(s):

Jewish Population ◽

Jewish Question ◽

Political Rights ◽

Right Wing ◽

Anti Semitism ◽

The First World War ◽

The Russian Empire ◽

The Right ◽

In The Beginning ◽

First World

The present article examines the place of the Jewish question in the ideology of the monarchist (right-wing, “black hundred”) parties. In spite of certain ideological differences in the right-wing camp (moderate Rights, Rights and extreme Right-Wing), anti-Semitism was characteristic of all monarchist parties to a certain extent, in any case before the First World War. That fact was reflected in the party documents, resolutions of the monarchist congresses, publications and speeches of the Right-Wing leaders. The suggestions of the monarchists in solving the Jewish questions added up to the preservation and strengthening of the existing restrictions with respect to the Jewish population in the Russian Empire. If in the beginning the restrictions were main in the economic, cultural and everyday life spheres, after the convocation of the State Duma the Rights strived after limiting also the political rights of the Jewish population of the Empire, seeing it as one of the primary guarantees for autocracy preservation in Russia, that was the main political goal of the conservatives.

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The New Anti-Semitism and Diasporic Liminality: Jewish Identity from France to Montreal

Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes ◽

10.25071/1916-0925.40012 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 25 ◽

Author(s):

Robert Aaron Kenedy

Keyword(s):

Jewish Identity ◽

Primary Reason ◽

Case Study Approach ◽

Study Approach ◽

Anti Semitism ◽

Anti Jewish

Through a case study approach, 40 French Jews were interviewed revealing their primary reason for leaving France and resettling in Montreal was the continuous threat associated with the new anti-Semitism. The focus for many who participated in this research was the anti-Jewish sentiment in France and the result of being in a liminal diasporic state of feeling as though they belong elsewhere, possibly in France, to where they want to return, or moving on to other destinations. Multiple centred Jewish and Francophone identities were themes that emerged throughout the interviews.

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