Antisemitism in Argentina

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1556 WL 687
Held at	: Wiener Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/ ›
Full title	: Antisemitism in Argentina
Date(s)	: 1935-1938
Level of description	: Collection level
Extent	: 1 file
Name of creator(s)	: Delegacíon de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas Hilfsverein Deutschsprechender Juden Comite contra el Racismo y el Antisemitismo de la Argentina Organizacion popular contra el Antisemitismo

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Delegacíon de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas, originally called the Comite contra el Racismo y el Antisemitismo de la Argentina, was an umbrella organisation was founded in July 1935 for all important Jewish bodies in Argentina apart from the communists.

Hilfsverein Deutschsprechender Juden was founded by seven members of the German Jewish immigrant community of Buenos Aires who had been ostracized by Buenos Aires' non-Jewish 'German Colony'. The organisation assisted German Jewish immigrants who could no longer rely on the support of the German non-Jewish institutions many of which had succumbed to Nazi antisemitic propaganda.

Comite contra el Racismo y el Antisemitismo de la Argentina was founded by Argentine Jews in December 1934, comprising delegates from the major Jewish organisations and supported by the Jewish Colonization Association.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Antisemitism in Argentina: various papers, 1935-1938, is divided into five sections. The first section comprises papers of Delegacíon de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas, including a manuscript report about the role of Alexander Lux in the service of the German Propaganda ministry, 1935 and a list with biographical notes of the members of the Committee against Racism and Antisemitism, 1935 (687/1).

The second section comprises copy correspondence of Hilfsverein Deutschsprechender Juden relating to German Jewish immigrants in Argentina and Brazil 1936-1937 (687/2).

The third, Comite contra el Racismo y el Antisemitismo de la Argentina printed declarations, 1937 and notes on the first Congress against Antisemitism and Racism which took place in Buenos Aries in August 1938 (687/3).

The fourth, an Organizacion popular contra el Antisemitismo letter to the President of Argentina [1935-1938] (687/4); and the fifth section, papers regarding German Jewish immigration to Argentina and unidentified satirical pamphlet exhorting people to visit Germany [1938] (687/5).

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
German and Spanish

System of arrangement:

Chronological by organisation.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

Finding aids:

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Jewish Central Information Office

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Haim, Avni, translated by Gila Brand, Argentina and the Jews: a History of German Jewish Immigration, by Haim Avni, , University of Alabama Press, 1991.

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
November 2007