Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
American Jewish History
Angaben zur Quelle:
82,1-4 (1994) 7-42
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1500-
;
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews
Abstract:
Baltimore, with its large Catholic population, may serve as a paradigmatic example of Catholic attitudes toward the Jews. The positions of three weekly newspapers are compared for the period of 1890-1924: the Irish "Catholic Mirror" and its successor the "Baltimore Catholic Mirror" (from 1913 to the present), and the German "Katholische Volkszeitung." All three papers shared some common Catholic, as well as socioeconomic, prejudices against the Jews (e.g. the Jew as Judas and Shylock), and, in comparison to the mainstream press - the "Sun" and the German daily "Deutsche Correspondent" - displayed more prejudiced attitudes. However, the Irish-Catholic papers' images of Jews oscillated between unprejudiced attitudes and episodic xenophobic antisemitism, which became more intense during socioeconomic crises, whereas the German-Catholic paper harbored intense ideological antisemitism. This fact can be attributed to the minority and lower social status of the German Catholics in the city, as well as to their conservatism.
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