İkinci Dünya Savaşı’nda ABD’deki Yahudi Diasporasının Avrupa’daki Yahudileri Konu Alan Propaganda Pulları Üzerine İnceleme

Year 2021, Volume: 11 Issue: 1, 99 - 128, 30.06.2021

Tuğba Baytimur Caner Çakı

https://doi.org/10.53495/e-kiad.946696

Cited By: 1

Abstract

İkinci Dünya Savaşı sırasında ABD’deki Yahudi diasporası, Avrupa’da baskıcı politikalara maruz kalan Yahudilere yönelik ABD kamuoyunun dikkatini çekmeye çalışmıştır. Bu amaçla ABD’deki Yahudi diasporası tarafından 1943 yılında kurulan Avrupa Yahudi Halkını Kurtarmaya Yönelik Acil Durum Komitesi (The Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe) Avrupa’daki Yahudilere yönelik farkındalık oluşturulması amacıyla propaganda pulları hazırlamıştır. Çalışmada komite bağlamında İkinci Dünya Savaşı sırasında ABD’deki Yahudi diasporasının, Avrupa’daki Yahudi diasporasına yönelik söylemlerinin ortaya konulmasına çalışmıştır. Bu amaçla komite tarafından hazırlanan propaganda pulları, göstergebilim yöntemi üzerinden analiz edilmiştir. Elde edilen bulgularda pullar üzerinden Nazi Almanya’sının işgali altında Yahudi diasporasının baskıya maruz kaldığına vurgu yapılarak, kamuoyunda hüzün duygusu oluşturulmaya çalışıldığı ortaya çıkarılmıştır. Komitenin gerçekleştirdiği propaganda sonucunda Müttefik Devletleri’nin askerlerinin Alman ordusuna karşı savaşma isteğinin arttırılmaya çalışıldığı ileri sürülebilmektedir.

Keywords

Diaspora, Yahudi, Yahudi Diasporası, İkinci Dünya Savaşı, Pul

The Examination on the Propaganda Stamps Regarding the Jews in Europe of the Jewish Diaspora in the USA in the Second World War

Abstract

The Jewish diaspora in the USA tried to attract the attention of the US public to the Jews who were exposed to repressive policies in Europe during the Second World War. For this purpose, The Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, which was established by the Jewish diaspora in the USA in 1943, prepared propaganda stamps to raise awareness regarding the Jews in Europe. In this study, the discourses of the Jewish diaspora in the USA towards the Jewish diaspora in Europe during the Second World War was tried to reveal in the context of committee. For this purpose, the propaganda stamps prepared by the committee were analyzed using semiotics method. It was revealed that there was an attempt to form a sense of sadness in the public opinion, emphasizing that the Jewish diaspora was subjected to pressure under the occupation of Nazi Germany through stamps in the findings. As a result of the propaganda carried out by the committee, it can be argued that the will to fight of the soldiers of the Allied States was tried to increase against the German army.

Keywords

Diaspora, Jew, Jewish Diaspora, Second World War, Stamp

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