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by magnolia

Jan 19, 2015

On DA this week, Cora mentioned that her father was Jewish. I wondered about the British aristocracy's acceptance of her since I believe there was some general anti-Semitism in that time period. You may recall how opposed Lord Grantham was to the infant Sybie's baptism in the Catholic church and the critical remarks he made about the priest and the church; I can imagine he would have felt the same way, or worse, toward Jews...but is the story realistic -or not - in its premise that an aristocrat would have married outside his religion in order to save Downton during that time?

I found something online from a Jewish magazine that says that Downton Abbey glosses over anti-Semitism; I excerted a couple of paragraphs from it, below.

tabletmag .com/jewish-arts-and-culture/120923/downton- shabby

At the least, it (anti-Semitism) would have explained a couple of things: why the Crawleys seem always to be shut up in Yorkshire, away from any semblance of society; why...See More On DA this week, Cora mentioned that her father was Jewish. I wondered about the British aristocracy's acceptance of her since I believe there was some general anti-Semitism in that time period. You may recall how opposed Lord Grantham was to the infant Sybie's baptism in the Catholic church and the critical remarks he made about the priest and the church; I can imagine he would have felt the same way, or worse, toward Jews...but is the story realistic -or not - in its premise that an aristocrat would have married outside his religion in order to save Downton during that time?

I found something online from a Jewish magazine that says that Downton Abbey glosses over anti-Semitism; I excerted a couple of paragraphs from it, below.

tabletmag .com/jewish-arts-and-culture/120923/downton- shabby

At the least, it (anti-Semitism) would have explained a couple of things: why the Crawleys seem always to be shut up in Yorkshire, away from any semblance of society; why three daughters of such illustrious name seem to have such relatively dismal marital prospects. Might it be due to the presence of a genuine Levite in the family tree? It certainly seems plausible, given that Aristocratic Britain in the teens and twenties was not exactly a place of enlightened toleration to those who were different. But Downton’s writers have imposed what amounts to total omertà on the matter of Cora’s ancestry.

Compare this silence to the scene from its beloved predecessor, the original—and far superior—Upstairs Downstairs, in which the presence of a genial financier named Max Weinberg at a hunting party is enough to send the assembled toffs into a seething, clench-jawed tizzy. It’s a small masterpiece of racial tension and class anxiety that is at least as interesting as a six-minute scene in which Carson the butler illuminates for us the proper function of a bouillon spoon. With every jab at Weinberg’s clothes, guns, and shooting ability—not to mention their perturbation at his cheery refusal to be visibly wounded by same—we know exactly what kind of world we’re in, and exactly what kind of people we’re dealing with.

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