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This article explores the impact of social media on extremism and conspiracism. In particular, the recent period has shown that the far right represents an increasingly concrete threat in the public sphere, as evidenced by the influence of movements such as QAnon or the Capitol assault of January 6, 2021. Using the results of a research project on media and extremism carried out in Quebec between 2017 and 2021, this article shows that the extreme right makes particular use of social media, and that these act certainly as echo chambers, but also as vectors of a complex and protean conspiracist ideology. Qualitative interviews with radicalized individuals illustrate the ideological integration of social media into the cultural and political strategy of today's extreme right.
Keywords: extrême droite, complotisme, radicalisation, médias, extrémisme, extreme right, conspiracy, radicalization, media, extremism
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Keywords: Jewish women, herstory
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Keywords: Jewish bodylore, feminist ethnography, queer ethnography, folk practices
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The article examines the depiction of female Baghdadi Jewish characters in three works: Gay Courter’s English novel Flowers in the Blood (2002), Saadat Hasan Manto’s Urdu short story Mozelle (1951), and Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay’s Bengali story Makorshar Rosh (1933). It explores a murder case from Calcutta Jewry through the eyes of Courter’s protagonist Dinah Sassoon, a prevalent vice among the poorer Baghdadis through the character of a Jewish prostitute, Mozelle, and the role of Baghdadis in drug-trafficking through the character of Rebecca Light. The 21st century novel offers a nuanced understanding of characters, while the earlier short stories reflect their authors’ stereotypical understanding of their contemporary society.
Keywords: Bombay, Baghdadi Jews, Calcutta, colonial India, opium
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The Toronto Jewish Film Festival is a one-week celebration of Judaism and Cinema that occurs in downtown Toronto, at the Bloor Cinema, early every May. The folkloristic literature on festival notes that these kinds of events are ways that communities and groups celebrate themselves, and although film festivals are frequently excluded from consideration of traditional festivity, I shall demonstrate that such an omission is unfortunate, since like traditional festivity, film festivals, in particular ethnic film festivals, explore the same issues of liminality for the celebrating culture.
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The 2008 novel La burladora de Toledo by Angelina Muñiz-Huberman is the fictional recreation of the wandering life of an individual who lived in sixteenth-century Spain as, at various times, a man and as a woman. The novel at first appears to have two themes: the main character’s unrecognizable gender and their highly syncretistic and extraofficial religious life. My thesis is that in La burladora gender and religion, which initially manifest as two concerns, are facets of a broader concept that the narrative promotes. Burladora assigns a positive value to identities that are fluid, mutable, and indefinable.
Keywords: hermaphrodite, hermafrodita, female masculinity, masculinidad femenina, sincretismo, syncretism, criptojudaísmo, crypto-Judaism, indefinability, indefinibilidad
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This year, 2024, is the 500th anniversary of Caspar Amman’s passing. The German priest and Hebraist kept records of nineteen letters in Hebrew. The letters portray not only a picture of scholarly early modern Jewish–Christian collaboration, as Eric Zimmer has shown, but also an attempt by at least one Jewish rabbi to initiate a dialogue with the German priest. The exceptional letter, addressed to Caspar Amman by Rabbi Moshe Elchanan Bacharach from Swabia, was hitherto not translated into English and barely referenced in the literature. This and additional letters, sixteen in total, are published here for the first time in English (in the appendix). The epistolary corpus reflects mutual respect and appreciation, a shared love for the Hebrew language and the Hebrew book, and the use, by Hebraists, of the title “rabbi” to mark respect and appreciation. Given Gershom Scholem’s denial of any historic German–Jewish dialogue—or, alternatively, irrespective of it—these buds of a Christian–Jewish dialogue appear like rays of light piercing the darkness. Still, they could not withstand the spirit of the time.
Keywords: Interreligious Dialogue, Hebraism, Caspar Amman, Johannes Reuchlin, Hebrew, Kabbalah, Rabbi Moshe Elchanan Bacharach
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AbstractThis article studies the use of forenames in French and English. The autor studies the nature of Biblical, and mythological forenames as well as foreign and fictive ones. He also examines their forms and main functions. He illustrates with a bilingual corpus of fornames.