Oscar de Férenzy ou les limites du philosémitisme dans l’entre-deux-guerres
Catherine Poujol
The founder of La Juste Parole, Oscar de Férenzy (1869-1942), dedicates his intellectual action to the defence of the Catholic Church and to that of the Jews. The survey of his newspaper and his numerous works allows to bring out, in spite of the lack of personal archives, his action in favour of philo-Semitism between the two World Wars and to take into account the limits of this notion. Indeed, the members of the “Union civique des croyants”, to which he belongs, agree to struggle in order to protect a common spiritual heritage in front of the growth of Nazism and Bolshevism. But since they stand up only for believers, and subject the “non-believers” up to public obloquy, they follow a wrong way, unable as they are to admit that the German anti-Semitism is of racial nature and concerns every Jew without distinction. Pie XI rewarded him for his action, but he died under torture by the Gestapo, and thus paid his philo-Semitism with his life.
• Fabrication d’un philosémite
• La Juste parole, une publication engagée
• Apologie de l’action de Pie XI contre l’antisémitisme
• Les réactions juives à ce philosémitisme catholique
• Les limites du philosémitisme de l’entre-deux-guerres