Antisemitism in Argentina: various papers

These papers document, in part, the activities of a number of Jewish and anti-racist organisations in Argentina during the 1930s. The following organisations are represented:

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

Hilfsverein Deutschsprechender Juden- 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- founded by Argentine Jews in December 1934 comprising delegates from the major Jewish organisations and supported by the Jewish Colonization Association.

Organizacion popular contra el Antisemitismo

For further information on the background to these organisations and on the subjects of German Jewish immigration and antisemitism in pre-war Argentina see Argentina and the Jews: a History of German Jewish Immigration, by Haim Avni, translated by Gila Brand, University of Alabama Press, 1991.