Language:
German
Year of publication:
1988
Titel der Quelle:
Journal für Sozialforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
28,1 (1988) 117-136
Keywords:
Jews History 1945-
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Mass media
Abstract:
States that formerly the open expression of antisemitic sentiments was taboo in Austria. The intervention of the World Jewish Congress in the Waldheim presidential campaign furnished a context in which such utterances became acceptable. Argues that indirect and subtle antisemitic insinuations are just as dangerous as crude antisemitism. Analyzes texts by three participants in a symposium broadcast on Austrian television ("Club-2") on 4 April 1986. One of them, the chairman of the Vienna Initiative for Waldheim, attacked the World Jewish Congress, the Austrian Socialists and, by implication, Austrian Jews, using emotional language and antisemitic innuendo while openly denying antisemitism. In refuting his arguments, an anti-Waldheim participant relied partly on cognitive evidence and partly on an appeal to Austrians' guilt feelings towards the Jews, and a representative of the Jewish community used mainly cognitive arguments.
Note:
Offprint.
URL:
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