The sound of silence – Југословенска штампа о организованом исељавању Јевреја из Југославије у Израел (1948–1952)
The Sound of Silence – The Yugoslav Press on the Organized Migration of the Jews from Yugoslavia to Israel (1948–1952)

Summary/Abstract: The process of organized migration to Israel was the most dramatic change that the Yugoslav Jewish community had gone through after the Holocaust. Between 1948 and 1952, in five waves of mass emigration, around 7.500 Jews, almost the half of the war survivors left Yugoslavia for Israel. The Jews have migrated to Israel during the period extremely important for defining the Yugoslav foreign policy in the post-war world. The process of organized migration was intensified in the aftermath of the conflict with the Soviet Union and search of the Yugoslav regime for the alternative diplomatic support. This paper analyses the Yugoslav press coverage of the organized emigration of the Jews to Israel. The quantitative and qualitative aspects of all questions of the emigration have been analyzed respectively. The focus of the article was the approach of the press to the process of migration, regarding the specific situation of Yugoslavia after the split with the Soviet Union and consequent attempts for development of an independent foreign policy.

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