“The Jews are the misfortune of Slovakia”: Czechoslovakism and antisemitism at the end of the nineteenth century and in the first half of the twentieth century 1

use and abuse of narrative

“…Tiso promoted this vice, since, "for twenty years, Tiso […] preached that a combination of political Catholicism and Slovak nationalism could purify public life in Slovakia" 59 . Further conflict came from the "national antisemitism" 60 which had intensified due to a number of factors, particularly a fear of Bolshevism and a close association of the Jews with it, given that key figures in the movement were A. D. Hancock, Karl Barth's Emergency Homiletic, 1932-1933: A Summons to Prophetic Witness at the Dawn of the Third Reich, Grand Rapids, MI 2013, 74, 129, 134-136. SALMANTICENSIS 69 (2022 nominally from a Jewish background 61 ; anger at the percentage of Jews in professional roles 62 ; and a perception of Jews as being "troublesome foreigners" 63 , either associating them with Germans or as a separate, "antinational" race 64 .…”