Language:
English
Year of publication:
1988
Titel der Quelle:
Nationalities Papers
Angaben zur Quelle:
16, 2 (1988) 201-208
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Discusses the opinion that the 1907 peasant revolt in Romania had an antisemitic character, expressed frequently in Romanian historiography and by interwar political propaganda. Explains the penetration of anti-Jewish stereotypes in the rural areas, especially in the peasants' perception of the Jew as a non-Christian alien element. Analyzing the Romanian interwar press and results of the 1937 elections, considers the success of the extreme right-wing and antisemitic parties (the LANC, led by A.C. Cuza, and the Iron Guard) as an effect of antisemitic propaganda among the peasants. They were gravely affected by the economic crisis in the 1930s and disappointed by the National Peasant Party. In Greater Moldavia (including Bessarabia and Bukovina) the negative image of the Jew was also blackened by the activities of pro-Bolshevik Jews who supported Soviet territorial claims.
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