Although it is still far from perfect, Canada has evolved into a very multicultural country. But during the 19th century, anti-Semitism had a lengthy and horrible history in Canada. Anti-Semitism can be defined most simply as hostility directed at Jews only because they are Jews. In spite of what anti-Semites profess, anti-Semitism is not caused by the actions or beliefs of Jews, but rather is a result of attitudes and behaviour that arise no matter what Jews do or believe. .
There was extensive anti-Semitism in Canada's early history. This can be proved because during the years of Nazi terror, from 1933 to 1945, the United States accepted more than 200 000 Jewish refugees, Palestine, 125 000 refugees; tormented Britain, 70 000 refugees, Argentina, 50 000 refugees, destitute Brazil, 27 000 refugees; distant China, 25 000 refugees, undersized Bolivia and Chile, 14 000 each, and Canada, the second largest country, only found room for 5 000! Regular attacks on Judaism and the Jewish community appeared in "Semaine Religieuse de Quebec" and in other religious publications, and the infamous anti-Semitic forgery. Many people have claimed that Jews as a group possess far too much wealth and power. We call this the Economic Theory of Anti-Semitism. It postulates that Jewish wealth and power arouses the envy of other groups, and this in turn leads to anti-Semitism. This theory has surfaced in different guises throughout history. One of the ways it became popularized was through "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." .
"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" was a virulent anti-Semitic book. It was promoted by various religious leaders in Canada. From 1910 through the 1940s, prominent Canadians like Edouard Plamandon, Adrian Arcand, Goldwin Smith, Henri Bourassa, and Mackenzie King were associated with strong anti-Semitism, taking such stands as justifying Russian pogroms against the Jews, openly praising Hitler, and denying safety in Canada to Jews fleeing Nazi persecution.
In the 1890's, antisemitism in Europe took the form of violent oppression in Eastern Europe. It was a political movement in western Europe, and eventually because of a deplorable economic situation, reached its peak of brutality in the form of Nazism. In Eastern Europe, Jews were seen as outcasts an...
The idea of antisemitism was not seculded to Nazi Germany and its the surrounding countries but also was very apparent in Canadian culture, during the 1930s. ... It is seen through the goals of the social credit, that indirectly they intensified the paranoia and fear that Jewish people were the reason of the depression and that their removal of power would be the solution to a broken economy. it can be said the Social credit precipitated antisemitism, legitimized it and helped spread it. ...
I think Shakespeare intended for Shylock to play the role of a stereotypical 16th century Jew who would be mocked and looked down upon through the eyes of antisemitism which was rampant in England during this time. ...
In Germany and in its 'sister' ethnic-German Austria there was strong antisemitism that since the 19th century developed to a strong political force that blamed Jews for all problems and trouble. ... He had two Jewish friends there, but Vienna was then an active center of strong antisemitism, and Hitler also read "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion", a totally falsified document that was written by the pre-WWI Russian royal secret police in a cynical attempt to divert public blame of Russia's trouble from the monarchy to the Jews. ... It was basically the policy of the ...
Roman Polanski, born Roman Liebling, was born August 18, 1933 in Paris. He was the son of Jewish-Polish parents, who returned to Poland in 1937, because of the antisemitism rising going on France. At the start of World War II Roman and his parents were sent to the concentration camp in Aus...
Of all the people within western society, women have been the most heavily scrutinised by society. By utilising societies tool; the media, society has been able to isolate and identify what is socially acceptable in western society and what is not. By "erasing" certain minority groups from the publi...
Henry Ford of Ford Motors also became convinced that Jews were responsible for WW1 and printed the book for seven years in his newspaper the Dearborn Independent, which gave credibility to the idea that the Jews had started the war as a means to gain profit, which in turn only added to the already blossoming idea of antisemitism in America. ...
Abstract In this paper I will attempt to show how Nazism came to power in the events before and during their time. I am going to try and prove that although many influences and events lead up to Nazi rule, the main theme is the desperation of the German people and ripe economic atmosphere. None of t...