Language:
English
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Australian Journal of Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
5,2 (1991) 59-84
Keywords:
Jews History 1939-1945
;
Church history 20th century
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
Abstract:
A paper presented at the annual conference of the Australian Association of Jewish Studies, Melbourne, July 1991. Relates the reactions of three Catholic papers in Australia - "The Advocate, " "The Tribune, " and "The Catholic Worker" - to several burning issues of the period connected with Jews: the alleged support of communism by the Jews; the Nazi persecution and annihilation of Jews; the refugee problem; and the question of Palestine. Shows that the Catholic press was inclined to brand Jews as "prone to both capitalism and communism, " as well as atheism. In the 1930s it was disposed either to justify Nazi policy toward Jews or to keep silent about it. Between 1939-45 it emphasized Catholics' sufferings and the Catholic Church's courageous position against the Nazis, while maintaining silence about Jewish suffering. It spoke against accepting Jewish refugees and also against Zionism, regarding the last as a common British-Jewish imperialist enterprise threatening to undermine the "Christian character" of Palestine.
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