Language:
English
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Journal of Sociology
Angaben zur Quelle:
43,1-2 (2001) 70-85
Keywords:
Goldsmid, Lionel L.
;
South African Jewish Chronicle
;
Antisemitism
;
Jews History 1500-
Abstract:
On 16 November 1917 Lionel Goldsmid, editor of the "South African Jewish Chronicle, " brought a libel action in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court against Solomon Vogelson, alleging that the latter was responsible for publishing two defamatory letters in an English supplement to his Yiddish-language weekly, "Der Afrikaner." The letters were published in reaction to several of Goldsmid's editorials, in which he accused Jewish immigrants from Russia of reluctance to enlist in the army and of cowardice. The letters accused Goldsmid of antisemitism. The legal proceedings lasted 12 months; the Magistrate's Court dismissed the case. However, the appeal heard by the Transvaal Supreme Court reversed the judgment and awarded Goldsmid damages. The court antisemitism not as an attack on a Jewish individual but against Jews as a race or religion. It also emphasized that the Jewish community must accept both internal and external criticism; thereafter, although tensions between Jews did not cease, such a case has rarely come again into the public arena.
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