Les Juifs sur la scène parisienne : Du baron de Horn à Ézéchiel ou « la question juive » à la Comédie-Française dans les années vingt

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The part plaid by the theatre in the expansion of anti-Semitism is an aspect of the cultural history which was not much looked into. The theatre, a public place, reflects the discussions among this society, so that it is not surprising to find there echoes of this “Jewish question”. The three plays performed at the “Comédie-Française” at three different times between the two World Wars, Le Prince d’Aurec from Henri Lavedan (1919), Le Marchand de Paris by Edmond Fleg (1927) and Ezechiel from Albert Cohen (1933), allow to understand the state of mind of the French public, which, after a pause in anti-Semitism – owed to the courage and enlistment of Jews during the first World War –, is tempted to consider the Jew as a scapegoat for the French economical and political difficulties. But these plays put the question to the Jewish authors themselves and to the way the Jewish public reacts to them.