The formidable disruptiveness and novelty of Le Salut par les Juifs is best understood if this text is placed back in the long history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European Catholic Judeophobia. This is the aim of this article, which compares Bloy’s remarks on Veuillot’s reactions toward the Mortara Affair and all of theological anti-Talmudism, to the founding of La Libre Parole, citing the repercussion it had on the contemplation of Bernanos in his later life, when he wrote Dans l’amitié de Léon Bloy.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques