Language:
English
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Shofar; an Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
22,4 (2004) 67-79
Keywords:
Grido della Stirpe
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism History 1500-
;
Jews Periodicals
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews Legal status, laws, etc.
Abstract:
Many Italian Americans, including some who had sympathized with Mussolini's regime, distanced themselves from fascism after the enactment of Italy's Racial Laws in 1938. However, others embraced the racist policy and some anti-fascist Italian-language papers in the U.S. expressed a measure of antisemitic sentiment. Examines the attitude of the New York-based weekly "Il Grido della Stirpe" and its editor Domenico Trombetta. While antisemitism, rooted in ethnic rivalries between Jewish and Italian Americans, existed among the latter, it was hostility toward Jews per se which motivated the support for the racial legislation by "Il Grido della Stirpe". Trombetta declared the Jews to be the most dangerous threat to the "pure Italian race" and a key component in an international conspiracy to overthrow the fascist regime in Italy. The paper even outdid fascist propaganda in its display of anti-Jewish feelings and prejudice.
Note:
On the New York-based Italian language newspaper "Il Grido della Stirpe", which supported the Italian fascist laws and antisemitism.
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