Language:
German
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
15 (2006) 185-199
Keywords:
Antisemitism
;
Jews History
Abstract:
Although Jews formed a negligible part of the population in Slovenia in the 19th and early 20th century, antisemitism was almost universal and existed in all the political parties, but especially in the dominant Catholic Party. It was disseminated by the press and the Church, and in literature. Many Slovenians had studied in Vienna and absorbed Lueger's antisemitism. Catholic nationalists exalted the peasantry, the countryside, physical labor, conservatism; Jews stood for industrialization, urbanization, speculation, manipulation and exploitation, the stock market, and liberalism. Jews' destructive influence was seen as extending to Slovenia, even though there were no Jews there. The writings of the antisemitic ideologues often read like "Mein Kampf". Antisemitism was especially virulent in certain Catholic youth organizations and academic circles. While their extreme Nazi-style antisemitism was confined to a minority, the relatively milder form shared by most of the population helped prepare Slovenia for the Holocaust.
Note:
In the 19th-20th centuries.
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