Language:
Spanish
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Reflejos
Angaben zur Quelle:
5 (1996) 86-100
Keywords:
Vargas, Getúlio D.
;
Perón, Juan Domingo,
;
Antisemitism
;
Jewish refugees
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Antisemitism
;
Jewish refugees
Abstract:
Compares immigration policies regarding Jewish refugees under Vargas' Estado Novo regime in Brazil and under Perón's first regime (1946-50) in Argentina. States that both populist regimes did not acknowledge the existence of a "Jewish question" in their countries, although they occasionally tolerated antisemitic groups. On the other hand, the nationalist and Catholic orientation of both regimes maintained the image of the unassimilable Jew, thus opposing further Jewish immigration and focusing on the "integration" of the Jews already in the country. Shows that Brazil's wartime and postwar immigration restrictions (e.g. under Oswaldo Aranha), like Perónist Argentina's, were based on ethnic selection quotas. Exceptions to this rule, such as the acceptance of some 5,000 Jewish refugees in 1939, were not the result of U.S. pressures but a pragmatic "selection" of Jews valued for their skills and their economic contribution.
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