‘After the Holocaust: National Attitudes to Jews’A TALE OF TWO TRAILS: Antisemitism in Canada 1985
In 1985, two men were brought to trial under the criminal Code of Canada for propagating antisemtic slanders: (1) James Keegstra, an Alberta high school teacher, and (2) Emst Zūndel, a Toronto resident who produced revisionist tracts for export. They are similar and different. Keegstra is a classica...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1989
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 1989, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 77-88 |
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| Summary: | In 1985, two men were brought to trial under the criminal Code of Canada for propagating antisemtic slanders: (1) James Keegstra, an Alberta high school teacher, and (2) Emst Zūndel, a Toronto resident who produced revisionist tracts for export. They are similar and different. Keegstra is a classical antisemite who derives his ideas from anti-Talmudic literature and from nineteenth-century European conspiracy theories, especially following the French Revolution. His roots also lie in Social Credit politics in western Canada. Zūndel is a neo-Nazi German nationalist preoccupied with the restoration of Germany's ‘honour’ and the rehabilitation of the Third Reich. Neither Keegstra nor Zūndel represents more than a fringe element in Canadian society. However, both appeal to antisemitic feelings already latent in Canada, and, for this reason, their trials are significant. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/4.1.77 |