Abstract: In spite of his powerful indictments of Drumont, Bloy is sometimes accused of anti-Semitism because of some “black marks” in his works. Le Salut par les Juifs transfigures anti-Semitic hatred into praise, according to a central principle of Bloy’s writing: “la transubstantiation des excrémentiels anathèmes” (“the mysterious transubstantiation of excremental anathemas”). And thus the manure of insult becomes fertilizer for the fig tree of Israel.
