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The Traitor and the Jew (Full title:
The Traitor and the Jew: Anti-Semitism and the Delirium of Extremist Right-Wing Nationalism in French Canada from 1929-1939) is a 1992 book of
non-fiction by
Quebec political scientist Esther Delisle Ph.D..
First published in the
French language by
L'Étincelle as
Le traître et le Juif : Lionel Groulx, le Devoir et le délire du nationalisme d'extrême droite dans la province de Québec, 1929-1939, in 1993 it was published in the
English language by
Robert Davies Publishing of
Montreal (ISBN 1-895854-01-6). Based on her
doctoral thesis, Delisle details the history of
antisemitism and support of
fascism among
Quebec nationalists during the 1930s and '40s.
Controversy
Delisle provided hundreds of antisemitic quotations from or attributed to
Lionel Groulx (1878-1967), a
Roman Catholic priest and a leading intellectual, the nationalist review
L'Action nationale and the Montreal newspaper
Le Devoir. Her allegations of pseudonymous antisemitic articles by Groulx, and her assertion that he was an active Fascist sympathizer, caused great controversy, as did her reporting of antisemitic opinion pieces and articles that had been published in the respected intellectual Quebec newspaper
Le Devoir during the 1930s.
Her thesis was controversial even before it was published, as conflicts over it amongst her thesis committee delayed its approval;Janice Arnold,"Post-graduate paper comes under...
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