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Re: Newbie questions

From: maurice.ferrer <maurice.ferrer~at~wanadoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 16:27:18 +0200
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

Please,*
don't be so anti antisemitic about Verne,it was the wright things at the
wright time to be,and I am the first one to condamn it.please let have some
freedom of opinion about Mr Sharon and its politic,if you want to fight at
the same level.time has gone by and certainly Verne would not be antisemitic
by now at this age.but there is a lot of thing to say about Mr sharon
politic,which migth be a subject of discussion in years to come.
sincerly
Maurice Ferrer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean-Pierre Boutin" <boutin~at~versailles.inra.fr>
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: Newbie questions


> Dear David and Fiends,
> >
> >2- I've jumped on my seat when I've read about the behavior of Ben-Zuf
and
> >the description of Verne himself about Isaac Hakabut! I repeat I'm only
in
> >the middle of the book, so the situation may change to the end. But why!
Why
> >does Verne is so angry against hebrews?
>
> The question has been largely debated in papers and books devoted to
> the JV and his novels (in French but also probably in other
> languages). My opinion is that JV -a Catholic belonging to a fanatic
> Catholic family- was, as most non-Jews bourgeois of his time(*),
> anti-Semitic and probably less than the mean. In fact this
> anti-Semitism appeared in very few novels (Martin Paz, a youth short
> story for the "Musée des familles", and Hector Servadac), possibly
> because Hetzel, who was atheist, deleted from the manuscripts
> submitted by JV any attack against Jews and religion in general (for
> evident commercial reasons) and even added allusions to God, the
> providence ... etc. But why the character of Isaac Hakabut? In short
> probably because, when writing Servadac, JV was really angry against
> Hebrews! The reason is that he was somewhat harassed by a Jew Polish
> who pretended that JV was his cousin (or other relative) that
> emigrate from Poland to France years ago, because "Verne" is the
> translation in French of his Polish family name... The first version
> of Servadac published in the "Magasin" is generally said to be by far
> more anti-Semitic than the book version. See the book of Marc
> Soriano : "Jules Verne, le cas Verne" for severe analysis of the JV
> antisemitism, further biographs are less drastic.
> Hope this will help
> Jean-Pierre
> (*) Things have changed (at least in most developed countries ...)
fortunately
>
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> Jean-Pierre Boutin <boutin~at~versailles.inra.fr>
> Lab. de Biologie des Semences (Seed Biology Lab.), INRA
> F-78026 Versailles cedex, France
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