ASPECTS OF THE ANTI-SEMITIC VIEWS OF NICHIFOR CRAINIC REFLECTED IN “GÂNDIREA” JOURNAL
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29 March 2026
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15 March 2019
Abstract
USING INFORMATION FOUND IN GÂNDIREA JOURNAL, AN IMPORTANT ROMANIAN PUBLICATION FROM THE INTERWAR PERIOD, THAT NICHIFOR CRAINIC DIRECTED FOR ALMOST TWO DECADES, THE AUTHOR EMPHASIZES IN THIS ARTICLE THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF ANTI -SEMITIC VIEWS OF HIM. I MPORTANT ROMANIAN PERSONALITY FROM THE AFOREMENTIONED PERIOD, PERSECUTED AND IMPRISONED LATTER BY THE COMMUNISTS FOR HIS PREVIOUS ATTITUDE, HE LEFT IMPORTANT WORKS ON SPIRITUALITY, MYSTIQUE AND PHILOSOPHY. BESIDES THESE THEMES, HE ALSO DEVELOPED IDEAS RELATED WITH POLITICAL AREA, THAT WE WILL INVESTIGATE THERE. THE APPROACH WHICH WILL BE A KIND OF REVIEW OF LITERATURE, WILL TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE NUMBER OF ARTICLES PUBLISHED BY HIM THERE, THEIR THEMATIC REPARTITION (BECAUSE HE PUBLISHED THERE TEXTS OF THEOLO GY, PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, POLITICAL ARTICLES, CHRONICLES OR BOOK REVIEWS), BUT ALSO THE ASPECTS OF ANTI -SEMITISM AND THE WAY HOW AUTHOR MOTIVATES HIS ATTITUDE. WE WILL ALSO USE THE PREVIOUS RESEARCHES DEDICATED TO HIM OR HIS WORK, SHOWING HOW THEY CONTRI BUTE TO THE RECEPTION OF CRAINIC FOR NOWADAYS RESEARCH.
Keywords
GÂNDIREA JOURNAL
LEGIONARY MOVEMENT
INTERWAR PERIOD
MYSTIQUE
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