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1951
Slovakia
Antisemitism

Surveillance of Jewish Intellectuals

Under the pretense of combating “cosmopolitanism,” state authorities began systematically targeting Jewish intellectuals. Writers, academics, teachers, and cultural figures faced increased surveillance, blacklisting, and exclusion from professional life. The term “cosmopolitan” functioned as a euphemism for Jewish identity, particularly when paired with accusations of insufficient loyalty to the socialist state, reinforcing coded antisemitism within official ideology.

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