Keleti Újság, issue no. 102, 6 May 1944, p. 1

Keleti Újság, issue no. 102, 6 May 1944, p. 1

This article mentions that the readership had not been previously aware of the Jewish origin of many of the authors forbidden by this decree. These authors’ works were thought to introduce into the spiritual life ideas which were deemed poisonous to Hungarian purity. The article also claims that Jewish writers effaced Hungarian authors in the literary scene. As a result of these decrees, thirty wagons’ worth of books were recycled.

Lucian Blaga CUL Cluj-Napoca Collections

The Dr. Moshe Carmilly Institute for Hebrew and Jewish History

6 May 1944

Hungarian