Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Correspondence between JUNA (Juedische Nachrichten, press agency of SIG [Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland]) and the SIG administration regarding disputes with the editorial board of the "Juedische Rundschau Maccabi" newspaper, 1954-1957

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Correspondence between JUNA (Juedische Nachrichten, press agency of SIG [Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland]) and the SIG administration regarding disputes with the editorial board of the "Juedische Rundschau Maccabi" newspaper, 1954-1957 In the file: - JUNA correspondence regarding disputes between the SIG adminstration board and the editorial board of the "Juedische Rundschau Maccabi", the Jewish newspaper in Basel, with concentration on the May 1957 incident which erupted after the right-wing party journal, "National", based in Neuchatel, revealed that the "Juedische Rundschau Maccabi" was printed at a Communist printing press in Geneva; the friction was set in motion by a group of extreme anti-Communist activists, including antisemites such as Marc E. Chantre and Jean-Rene De Ziegler; - Correspondence regarding the incident between Adrien Blum-Bloch, the "Juedische Rundschau Maccabi", editor and Georges Brunschvig, the SIG chairman, and Georg Guggenheim, head of the Defense and Publicity Department; - Documentation regarding incidents related to the erroneous claim regarding the "Juedische Rundschau Maccabi", the SIG journal; - Documentation of incidents related to the publication of announcements from Basel hotels by the "Juedische Rundschau Maccabi", despite the request from SIG that they refrain from publishing these announcements due to antisemitic remarks by members of the Basel Hoteliers' Association.