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Dariusz Libionka,
“Alien, Hostile, Dangerous: The Image of the Jews and the ‘Jewish
Question’ in the Polish-Catholic Press in the 1930s”
The article
deals with the handling of the “Jewish question” in Catholic
intellectual periodicals published in the 1930s. Many of them,
despite their prominence among Catholic publications, have been
until now ignored by researchers in this field. Yet, these very
periodicals were the basis for Catholic reflection on the status of
Jewish citizens of the Polish Republic, Judaism and Polish-Jewish
relations. In the 1930s the press in question attached to the
“Jewish question” much more importance that previously believed.
Both the form and the contents of these texts concerning Jews and
the “Jewish question” were not far from what could be found in the
popular Catholic press. The authors of these articles focused on
depicting the “Jewish threat” and looking for “solutions” to the
“Jewish problem.” Despite a declared need to find solutions
consistent with the teachings of the Church this press referred to
the problem in a very ambiguous and inconsistent way. The article
discusses the main notions and ideas of anti-Jewish Catholic
discourse in the 1930s. s. |
