'Contre tous les youpins du monde' : la ville de Québec au temps de l’antisémitisme (1890–1914)

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'Contre tous les youpins du monde' : la ville de Québec au temps de l’antisémitisme (1890–1914)
Abstract
In 1912, Charles Maurras mentioned in the right-wing Parisian publication l’Action française “the importance of anti-Semitism in Quebec City.” The author notes that as a city founded on a strong ethno-linguistic duality, Quebec City’s character changed considerably at the turn of the twentieth century. He outlines how industrialization, immigration, the predominant conception of the nation-state and the magisterium of the Catholic Church upset a city that seemed to be experiencing a difficult transition. Ridden with anxiety, a conservative Francophone elite began attacking the city's vulnerable Jewish minority on a daily basis. The author explains that a noisy anti-Semitism took shape, regularly feeding a chimerical representation of the Jew which, by the effect of imbalance between reality and the imaginary, between truth and lies, generated nocuous tensions.
Publication
Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes
Volume
Vol. 30
Pages
42-66
Date
2020
Language
fr
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Citation
Durou, Guillaume. “’Contre tous les youpins du monde’ : la ville de Québec au temps de l’antisémitisme (1890–1914).” Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes Vol. 30 (2020): 42–66. https://cjs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cjs/article/view/40183/36352.
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