Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
East European Jewish Affairs
Angaben zur Quelle:
24,1 (1994) 49-70
Keywords:
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
Jews Periodicals
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
The Polish Catholic Church and its press rejected Nazi racist antisemitism, but its traditional anti-Jewish rhetoric virtually guaranteed indifference to Jewish suffering. In the interwar period, the idea that Jews were a "problem" due to their alleged connection with Freemasonry became a commonplace. The "Jewish question" was a key element in the debate over national identity. The Catholic press, especially the antisemitic "Maly Dziennik, " supported the anti-Jewish economic boycott and the "de-Judaization" of Polish culture. States, however, that Maximilian Kolbe, who supervised "Maly Dziennik, " was not antisemitic, but anti-liberal and anti-secular. Mentions opposition to antisemitism expressed by the Catholic journal "Prad, " edited by Antoni Szymanowski. Discussing positive changes in the Polish Church's attitude toward Jews in recent years, notes that the 1991 pastoral letter did not acknowledge the culpability of the Church's hierarchy and press for the general passivity or hostile attitude during the Holocaust.
Note:
Another version appeared as "The interwar Polish Catholic press on the Jewish question" in "The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science" 548 (1996) 169-190.
DOI:
10.1177/0002716296548001013
URL:
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