The press and Propaganda at the Beginning of  World War I. The Case of "Egyenlőség" (Equality) Newspaper Cover Image

Presa și propaganda la începutul Primului Război Mondial. Cazul ziarului „Egyenlőség” (Egalitatea)
The press and Propaganda at the Beginning of World War I. The Case of "Egyenlőség" (Equality) Newspaper

Author(s): Enikő Balázs Széles
Subject(s): Cultural history, Local History / Microhistory, Political history, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: war propaganda; First World War; Jewish entity; minority; Jews; war; propaganda;

Summary/Abstract: The First World War was the first armed conflict in history it has become a world war. Various propaganda tools have been used since the beginning of the war, an important propaganda tool being the press. Through the press, large masses of people could be influenced to support the “Great War.”War propaganda is aimed at supporting the idea of war, and then supporting the war, financial and material.The Hungarian Jewish Political Weekly Newspaper “Egyenlőség (The Equality),” which was published in Budapest, had its own methods and forms of war propaganda, some quite specific.We are in the period of Austro Hungarian Dualism, and at the beginning of the First World War, Germany became an ally of Austro Hungarian Empire. In this military political context it was a necessity to define on the pages of the newspaper who were the “enemies” and who were the “friends”. And from a social point of view, the Jewish entity was a minority that has fought very hard for decades to win its rights, but for which the period 1867–1914 was a period of accentuated development from a demographic, social and cultural point of view

  • Issue Year: 1/2022
  • Issue No: LXI
  • Page Range: 249-262
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Romanian