"White terror," the Hungarian press and the evolution of Hungarian antisemitism after World War I

Bodó, Béla
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Title "White terror," the Hungarian press and the evolution of Hungarian antisemitism after World War I.
Host Item Yad Vashem Studies 34 (2006) 45-86
Description Following World War I, the radical right press in Hungary acted as a conduit between racist and anti-socialist thinkers and the masses. This press succeeded in modernizing Hungarian antisemitism, shifting its focus from religious issues to nationalist, social, and economic ones. Examines four radical right newspapers: "Új Nemzedék" ("New Generation"), "A Nép" (The People"), "Szózat" ("Manifesto"), and "Virradat" ("The Dawn")
the motives of their editors and journalists, some of whom were prominent right-wing intellectuals
and the techniques and linguistic devices that they used to anchor antisemitic ideas in the public consciousness after 1919. Among the causes for their success were the support rendered to these papers by the counter-revolutionary government in the 1920s-30s and the repression of the left-wing press. Insofar as the "White Terror" period of 1919-21 was the beginning of Hungary's circuitous road to Auschwitz, the rightist press that arose at that time shares responsibility for the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
In Hebrew:
יד ושם
קובץ מחקרים לד (תשסו).35-69
Language English
Credits באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
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