Vicente Blasco Ibáñez: anti-Semitism among orange trees

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Abstract

The dialogue of Blasco Ibáñez, sometimes radical, controversial, and strongly anti-clerical, was at certain moments also openly antisemitic. I analyse the basis of Blasco Ibáñez’s Judeophobia by studying the evolution of his anti-Jewish prejudice before and after the Dreyfus affair, and his difficulty in overcoming its most classical and traditional dimensions.

Author Biography

  • Orfeo Balboa, University of Valencia

    Orfeo Balboa is a political scientist and lawyer, he received the ‘extraordinary’ award for his undergraduate degree from the University of Granada, has an Interuniversity master’s degree in Intelligence Analysis, and is a doctoral researcher in social sciences at the Universitat de València. His research focuses on the history of anti-Semitism in the contemporary European left, a subject on which he has previously published Antisionismo: judeofobia sin
    judíos y antisemitismo sin antisemitas [Anti-Zionism: Judeophobia without Jews and anti-Semitism without anti-Semites] (2016).

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Published

2019-01-08

Issue

Vol. 3 (2018): Annual Review 3

Section

SPECIAL ISSUE 2

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Balboa, O. (2019) “Vicente Blasco Ibáñez: anti-Semitism among orange trees”, Debats. Journal on culture, power and society, 3. Available at: https://revistadebats.net/article/view/1761 (Accessed: 2 November 2026).