Language:
English
Year of publication:
2016
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
30,2 (2016) 298-327
Keywords:
Jews History 20th century
;
Antisemitism History 20th century
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jewish refugees
Abstract:
Beginning in 1933, the government of Afghanistan began to exclude Jews from trade, forced them to move from frontiers to the main cities, and declared a policy of forcing the Jews to leave the country. Based on archival records, sheds light on the stated security rationale for these new practices. Contends that while Afghanistan treated other minorities arbitrarily, Afghan Jews and Jews from Soviet Central Asia suffered the most sustained persecution. Argues that although Nazi ideology and propaganda had some influence on a key minister in the government, the predominant drivers of policy were an ingrained antisemitism and the assumption that many Soviet Jews were Bolshevik agents. Notes that hostility was also accentuated from the late 1930s by Muslim solidarity with the Palestinians. After 1945, British, British Indian, and American officials neither influenced Kabul to treat its Jewish minority more humanely, nor did they enable the emigration of beleaguered and impoverished Jewish communities.
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