Victor Basch
Basch Viktor Vilém, or Victor-Guillaume Basch (18 August 1863/1865,
Anti-Nazism
.
His father was the journalist and political activist,
anti-Semitic populace. In a 1916 interview cited by his biographer and granddaughter, the French historian Françoise Basch, Victor Basch declared, " I'm really a Jew. I struggle and suffered for my Jewishness."[1] However, biographer Françoise Basch underscores that her grandfather identified with his family history and the suffering of persecuted Jews, and not with Judaism as a religion. As both a member of the League against Imperialism created in Brussels in 1927, and as President of the Ligue des Droits de l'Homme from 1926–1944, Basch was one of the architects of the Popular Front
. He fought and suffered for the principles of legal and social justice as well as human rights.
On 10 January 1944, Victor Basch and his wife, Ilona Basch (née Helene Furth) aged 81, were taken from their home in Lyon and assassinated by Joseph Lecussan and Henri Gonnet of the antisemitic Vichy French Milice Française under orders of the regional chief Paul Touvier.
Literary works
His published works include an important study:
- "(Essai critique sur) L'Esthétique de Kant", Paris, 1896; the first volume of a work in 4 volumes on the history of esthetics;
- "(La) Poétique de Schiller";
- "La Vie Intellectuelle à l'Etranger";
- "Les Origines de l'Individualisme Moderne"
- L'indivisualisme anarchiste, 1904
- Max Stirner, 1904
- Titian, 1927
- "Schumann, A Life of Suffering", 1931, translated from French by Catherine Alison Phillips
- Essai d'esthétique de Kant, 1936
He also contributed frequently to the "Siècle" and the "Grande Revue" of Paris.
Notes
- ^ Basch, Françoise Victor Basch: de l'affaire Dreyfus au crime de la milice. Librairie Plon. Paris: 1994.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Isidore Singer (1901–1906). "Victor Basch". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.- Basch, Françoise. Victor Basch: de l'affaire Dreyfus au crime de la milice. Librairie Plon. Paris: 1994.
- George R. Whyte, The Dreyfus affair : a chronological history, Basingstoke 2008
External links
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