Je me souviens (2002 film)

Je me souviens is a 2002 documentary film about antisemitism and proNazi sympathies in Quebec during the 1930s through post World War II made by Montreal filmmaker Eric Richard Scott. The title of the film is French for I remember, and is the official motto of Quebec. The film was inspired by The Traitor and the Jew 19921993, a history of Quebec from 19291939, showing the links among antisemitism, nationalism and fascism among Quebec Catholic intellectuals.

Scotts documentary notes that antisemitism existed in other parts of Canada, but it was particularly intense in Quebec. It was promoted by the Roman Catholic Church, in which almost every French Canadian had been reared since the colonial era, and which controlled the Quebec education system. Publications such as JulesPaul Tardivels La Vrit journal, LAction sociale, and La Semaine religieuse disseminated antiJewish views throughout the province. In the 1920s, the essays against Jews of the influential priest and intellectual Lionel Groulx influenced other clerics and teachers.Such was the influence of Lionel Groulx that FrenchCanadian politicians such as Henri Bourassa urged Canada to put a halt to Jewish immigration. Delisle examined the prevalence of antisemitic articles in the mainstream media, such as the French language newspaper Le Devoir. Arriving mostly in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Jewish population was a very small minority, representingof the population. Many settled in Montreal. Native Yiddish speakers, they adopted English, which was then the official language. This was another element that put them at odds with the Francophone Qubcois. ........

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