Juive

In the Nazi period Vichy France not only issued a raft of laws and edicts to define who was a Jew, it also issued “Certificates of Non-Adherence to the Jewish Race” Certificats de Non-Appartenance à la Race Juive.65 These attested that the bearer “should not be considered a Jew by terms of the law of June 2, 1941.”

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

For instance, the mock-dramatic love duet in "Croquefer," Offenbach's one-act 1857 send-up of medieval knighthood, comedically quotes the love themes from Jacques Halévy's "La Juive" and Giacomo Meyerbeer's "Robert le Diable" and "Les Huguenots," three of the most popular grand operas of that day.

Gilbert & Sullivan, Parody's Patresfamilias Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

In the Nazi period Vichy France not only issued a raft of laws and edicts to define who was a Jew, it also issued “Certificates of Non-Adherence to the Jewish Race” Certificats de Non-Appartenance à la Race Juive.65 These attested that the bearer “should not be considered a Jew by terms of the law of June 2, 1941.”

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

Due to a government slight, however, Garnier had to pay 120 francs to attend the opening gala, which included hugely popular scenes from Giacomo Meyerbeer's "Les Huguenots" and Fromental Halévy's "La Juive."

Architecture as Allegory Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

La France Juive sold a million copies and became a bible for organized political anti-Semitism.

Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

In 1886 he published an analysis of the Jewish takeover of France, La France Juive, or Jewish France.

Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

Portrait de la Juive dans la littérature française.

France, Modern. 2009

As someone remarked, it wasn't that bad that whackos like Edouard Droumont wrote 'La France Juive', the real catastrophe was that it was a bestseller, several time over.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

Her father, Jacques Fromental Élie Halévy (1799 – 1862), was permanent secretary of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and the renowned composer of thirty-two operas, including La Juive (1835), a tragedy of religious intolerance between Christians and Jews.

Genevi��ve Straus. 2009

We have to be careful: there are plenty of composers who are only remembered for one piece, but that doesn't mean they were one-hit wonders in their own time: as a quick example, Fromental Halévy is known today solely for his opera La Juive, but the man actually had over 30 others staged in Paris.

Archive 2006-10-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2006