Atitudinea ziaristului român Stelian Popescu și a ziarului Universul față de “problema evreiască” în perioada 1936-1944
The attitude of romanian journalist Stelian Popescu

Summary/Abstract: The present study intends to analyse the implication of the Romanian journalist and the paper he led in the public debate of the ’30 focused on the “Jewish problem”, the analysis of the newspaper discourse and articles being an eloquent manner of understanding the interwar mechanism of thinking and public debate. This article approaches the subject concentrating both on the attitudeexpressed by Stelian Popescu toward the evolution of the anti-Semitic prejudices and the contribution of „Universul” to the dissemination of these false ideas.The first part of the article analyses the contribution of the discourse of “Universul” to the development of the nationalistic culture and political mysticism that creates the premises of ethnic and religious discrimination. The second part would concentrate on the historical demonization of theHebrew people focusing also on the contribution of Stelian Popescu to the maintaining of demographic and economical anti-Semitism.

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