Abstract

Jews in French films in the late 1930s, Rémy Pithon. An analysis of French movies producted in the late 1930s reveals a curious paradox : a change from rather widespread anti-semitism to a kind of « repression » of the image of the Jew. Examining anti-semitic stereotypes, the author shows that their relative decline corresponds to the just image of a « vague Jewishness », just as horrible, for it opens the door to indifference.

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