"Celine's pamphlets frequently make bizarre allegations that the British House of Lords is dominated by Jews and the wealthy Jews "plunder the flesh of Aryan women". [The portrait in his third pamphlet, a malnourished black soldier, represented the] "Jewified, negrified but at least optimistic French Army."
Celine loved beautiful women, particularly dancers, and his favourite lover, the dancer Elizabeth Craight, left him for an American Jew the year before he wrote Bagatelles, and two years before L'ecole. In Bagatelles he laments that "there are no ballerinas for me - only for the Yids" (Bagatelles pur un massacre p.31) and later asserts that "Jews are at a premium as spouses in the USA. The Jew is vicious, the Jew is rich, the Jew stuffs himself well. The Jew negrifies well below the nigger." (p.275)
Anyone or any group Celine disliked was Jewish: … all English and American writers are Jews including "Lawrence, Huxley, Cahen, Shaw, Faulkner, Passos etc." (Bagatelles p.197) … "all evangelists since Peter through the present Pope, passing through Marx have all been Jews." In Rigadoon (responding to French losses in Vietnam in the 1950s) Celine emphasises the yellow peril more than the International Jewish conspiracy, but attentive readers know that in Celine's eyes these are two aspects of the same issue. Celine writes "The nigger Jew is in the process of toppling over the Aryan in communism and robot art to achieve the objectivist mentality of perfect slavery for Jews (the Jew is a nigger, the semite race does not exist, it is an invention of the freemasons, the Jew is only the product of a cross between niggers and asiatic barbarians)." (Bagatelles p.171)
… Let us consider Celine's treatmment of Anne Frank in 'North'. Frank, or 'little Esther Loyola', his transposition of Frank, who in Celine's view raked in millions by faking her diary and her death … is the Other, the antithesis of Celine. The name Frank is Germanic and bears the connotations of openness and loyalty. 'Loyola', Celine's transposition, has the connotation of a Jesuitical lack of frankness. Celine writes 'little Esther had the whole world with her, we have the whole world against us… I see little Esther Loyola, with the whole world at her feet, begging her, imploring her…" (p.140) Celine asserts that, if he had only lowered himself to praise little Esther "I'd have had the Nobel Prize, I'd be rich, everyone would have adored me." (p.214) The unfrank, disloyal Loyalas become Celine's name for the Jews. In Celine's transposition of history into the story of 'the Nazi Yids', he excoriates the false dichotomy of "over here the little Loyolas!… over there Himmler's paid executioners! The terrible calamity of the goyim is being such jugheads, such blithering Cartesians" as to think Jews and Nazis are opposing groups … there were plenty of "Nazi Yids working for Hitler."(North p.200)
Celine followed Nietzsche in accepting an opposition between morality and creativity, but gave the Nietzschean antithesis a characteristically racial twist into an opposition between Jesuitical Jews and creative Aryans. Jews, Celine claimed, are essentially mimetic and incapable of poetry or creative innovation. (Bagatelles p.192) Communist ideals, however Jewish, were first formulated by England and then stolen by Marx. (L'ecole p.113) Because of their lack of style, taste and creativity, Jews introduced standardisation into production and robotic art into culture. Jews have negrified taste, reduced music and poetry to a tom-tom sensibility, tansformed style into a standardised mimicry. (Bagatelles pp.188, 194)
Celine's adversary, Jean-Paul Sartre, who is given a physical description matching Celine's archetypal Jew, is called 'holy Sartre' or 'Jean-Baptiste Sarte', and a plagiarist. (Celine, Le style contre les idee, p.338)
Ernst Juenger wrote of Celine "He says how surprised and stupefied he is that we soldiers do not shoot, hang, exterminate the Jews - he is stupefied that someone availed of a bayonet should not make unrestricted use of it." (Frederic Vitoux, Celine: A Biography p.378)
After the war Celine could write "The Jews should erect a statue to me for the harm I didn't do them and for the harm I could have done them. They persecute me, I have never persecuted them." (Ibid. p.461)
"I am going to court on March 8. You see, the Jews can persecute too." The men who took Celine to court were, in fact, not Jews. (Ibid. p.331)"