Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
יהדות זמננו; שנתון לעיון ולמחקר
Angaben zur Quelle:
5 (תשמט) 301-327
Keywords:
Antisemitism
;
Jews History 1939-1945
Abstract:
Analyzes the wave of antisemitism which swept Cuba between 1933-39. Cuban society was not marked by a tradition of antisemitism. Several factors contributed to this phenomenon in the 1930s, emanating from the ranks of the Spanish minority population (ca. 16%): economic competition with Jewish immigrants, support for the loyalists fighting in Spain, and Nazi German propaganda in Cuba. Antisemitic propaganda was spread by José Ignacio Rivero, owner of three leading newspapers, and by Juan Prohias in radio broadcasts and in his activities as a leader of Cuban Nazism. The small Nazi party in Cuba (ca. 400 members in 1938) contributed to the antisemitic campaign, as did the Gestapo in Havana. The campaign reached a head in spring 1939 with intense anti-immigrant propaganda and restrictions imposed by the Cuban government on immigration. Relates the case of the ship "St. Louis" in May 1939, whose passengers were victims of the anti-immigrant fulminations and of a deliberate Gestapo plan to show that Jews were not wanted anywhere. This atmosphere changed completely with the onset of the war, and later when Cuba supported the Allies (from December 1941) and accepted Jewish immigrants.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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