ŽIDOVI U SRPSKOM TISKU U HRVATSKOJ POTKRAJ 19. STOLJEĆA
DEPICTIONS OF JEWS IN THE SERBIAN PRESS IN CROATIA AT THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: The major issue shaping Croat-Serb relations in the second half of the 19th century was two opposing concepts of nationalism. Serbs living Croatia advocated the extension of Serbian statehood. This was the root of the Croat-Serb conflict. According to the Serbian press, an important cause of this conflict was the pro-Semitic attitude of the Croats. All of the Serb liberal parties at this time were markedly anti-Semitic. In the struggle for the emancipation of Croatia, the Serb press reported, Jews were fully behind the Croats, and they occupied important positions in Croatian economy, culture, and politics. The Serbian press accused the Jews of pushing politics in Croatia toward the idea of Greater Croatia, and that Jews were taking over the Croatian economy with the blessing of Croats. It claimed that Jews were well-positioned to take advantage of new economic conditions, especially in retailing, and that with the help of their Croatian allies they were squeezing Serbs out of these areas of economic life. The Serbian press constantly accused the Croatian opposition, especially the Party of Right, of unpatriotic sympathies towards the Jews. They claimed Jews were directing Croatian politics against the interests of Serbs and Serbia, and that they were sapping the ‘nation’ principle by promoting cosmopolitanism and ‘decadent’ western culture.

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