The New Anti-Semitism and Diasporic Liminality: Jewish Identity from France to Montreal

Robert Aaron Kenedy

doi:10.25071/1916-0925.40012

Authors

Robert Aaron Kenedy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/1916-0925.40012

Abstract

Through a case study approach, 40 French Jews were interviewed revealing their primary reason for leaving France and resettling in Montreal was the continuous threat associated with the new anti-Semitism. The focus for many who participated in this research was the anti-Jewish sentiment in France and the result of being in a liminal diasporic state of feeling as though they belong elsewhere, possibly in France, to where they want to return, or moving on to other destinations. Multiple centred Jewish and Francophone identities were themes that emerged throughout the interviews.

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