Anti-Semitic Postcards from the Dreyfus Affair to the Holocaust
Publisher
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Berg International Editeurs
Parution date
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2005
EAN
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9782911289828
Description
With more than 500 postcards, La carte postale antisémite is a disturbing testament to the rampant and open anti-Semitism in Europe, the West in general, and even as far away as Palestine, in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century.
The first picture postcards were published in the 1880s and became an immediate success. They were inexpensive to produce and buy, required less postage than letters, and were delivered three times a day. We may think of them as slightly frivolous, but this shocking collection makes clear that they were used for a much more sinister purpose.
The end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century saw a rise in anti-Semitic propaganda, expressed in the Dreyfus Affair in France and in the dissemination of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion all over the West. The cards in this collection reveal the massive circulation of anti-Semitic caricatures, always denigrating, mocking, or condemning Jews.
Author
Joël Kotek : Dr. Joel Kotek is director of the education department at the Memorial de la Shoah in Paris. He teaches at the Free University of Brussels and at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. He has authored a number of publications on the Holocaust, including Le Siècle des camps / The Century of Camps (Jean Claude Lattès, 2000), which was awarded the Grand Prix d'histoire Chateaubriand and has been translated into Italian, German, Spanish, Romanian, Russian, and Greek. His last book, Au nom de l'antisionisme, le Juif et Israël dans la caricature depuis la deuxième Intifada (Complexe, 2003) / Cartoons and Extremism: Israel and the Jews in Arab and Western Media was just published in English by Vallentine Mitchell.
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