Nationalism, Conspiracy Theories, and Antisemitism in the Transylvanian Greek Catholic Newspaper Dumineca on the Eve of the Holocaust (1936–1940)

In the first half of the twentieth century churches in Eastern Europe often promoted extreme nationalism and antisemitism. Their very effectiveness discouraged many bystanders from helping Jews during the Holocaust. Here the author studies a little-known journal published by the Greek Catholic (Uniate) bishopric of Maramureş, a Transylvanian province of Romania (and Hungary from 1940 to 1944) with a significant Jewish population. This journal contributed to a climate in which the Christian population would look on with equanimity or even assist as the Nazi New Order pursued the mass murder of all Jews.