Diplomacy, Propaganda, and Humanitarian Gestures: Francoist Spain and Egyptian Jews, 1956-1968

Rein, Raanan

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dc.creator	Rein, Raanan
dc.date	2014-06-11
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-29T18:02:25Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-29T18:02:25Z
dc.identifier	http://journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/917
dc.identifier	10.18441/ibam.6.2006.23.21-33
dc.identifier.uri	http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/149889
dc.description	Historians still debate over the help extended by Francoist Spain to European Jews during the Holocaust. The Spanish dictatorship always exaggerated the extent of this assistance. This propagandist effort on the part of the Spanish regime to portray itself as the savior of Jews in distress, especially Jews of Sephardic origin, was put to the test during the 1950s and 1960s, when Madrid was asked to help Egyptian Jews following the 1956 and 1967 wars in the Middle East. Based on research in Spanish and Israeli archives, this article argues that: a) Spain could have done more to help Egyptian Jews. Its policy was unclear and inconsistent. Moreover, the assistance that was finally given was intended mainly to improve the dictatorship’s image in the eyes of Western democratic public opinion; b) the Francoist dictatorship did its best to prevent the settlement of Jews in Spain; c) the help extended to Egyptian Jews owed more to the initiatives of individual Spanish diplomats than to the policy adopted by the Spanish government; d) all this notwithstanding, the help given by Spain to Egyptian Jews should be appreciated and considered within the context of its overall effort to save Jews in distress in other Arab countries in the post-World War II period.	es-ES
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin)	es-ES
dc.relation	http://journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/917/599
dc.source	IBEROAMERICANA. América Latina - España - Portugal; Vol. 6 No. 23 (2006); 21-33	en-US
dc.source	IBEROAMERICANA. América Latina - España - Portugal; Vol. 6 Núm. 23 (2006); 21-33	es-ES
dc.source	2255-520X
dc.source	1577-3388
dc.source	10.18441/ibam.6.2006.23
dc.subject	Franco Regime	es-ES
dc.subject	Egyptian Jewry	es-ES
dc.subject	History	es-ES
dc.subject	Spain	es-ES
dc.subject	20th Century	es-ES
dc.title	Diplomacy, Propaganda, and Humanitarian Gestures: Francoist Spain and Egyptian Jews, 1956-1968	es-ES
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion