Language:
Spanish
Year of publication:
2013
Titel der Quelle:
Judaica Latinoamericana; estudios histórico-sociales
Angaben zur Quelle:
7 (2013) 415-438
Keywords:
Mundo Israelita (periodical)
;
Jews History 20th century
;
Antisemitism History 20th century
;
Jewish newspapers History
;
Jews Intellectual life
Abstract:
Discusses reactions to antisemitism in Argentina in the 1930s in the Jewish weekly “Mundo Israelita” (founded in 1923, and directed at that time by León Kibrick and Salomón Resnick). The journal became an arena for debate against the erupting antisemitism. Many Jewish and non-Jewish intellectuals, such as Luis Emilio Soto, Jorge Luis Borges, Enrique Dickmann, Aarón Spivak and León Klimovsky, expressed their opposition to antisemitism. However, nationalistic Catholic intellectuals (e.g. Manuel Gálvez, Hugo Wast, Carlos M. Sylveira) contributed greatly to the anti-Jewish polemics, in newspapers and in books, in order to spread and consolidate the antisemitic atmosphere of the time. What they had in common were their xenophobic views, their belief in conspiracy theories regarding Jews, their identification of communism with Judaism, and the conviction that Jewish immigration was destroying the Catholic identity of the country. They held the Jews responsible, on the one hand, for the financial crisis in Argentina and, on the other, for leading and igniting the workers' protest movements.
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