This changed dramatically in 1938, the last year of the pontificate of Pius XI, when Italy introduced anti-Semitic legislation.
International Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism, a worldwide forum dedicated to changing anti-semitic legislation and anti-semitic acts.
However, the practice has been condemned as commemorating a day when pogroms were common and anti-semitic legislation went into effect.
This drew some concern from the American Jewish Congress, as he had served in the recent Octavian Goga cabinet, which passed anti-Semitic legislation.
In fact, this single notable instance in which Wagner was urged to support anti-Semitic legislation has generated an interpretive literature of its own.
Undoubtedly they fear what he might disclose about the church's critical support for Vichy's collaborationist policies, including its anti-Semitic legislation.
Thus, Mussolini "decided to accommodate the National Socialists by introducing anti-Semitic legislation in Italy as evidence of his good faith.
Owing to anti-Semitic legislation and boycotts instigated by the Third Reich, this trade eventually came to an end.
Because of anti-Semitic legislation in Italy at this time, Bloch emigrated to the United States in 1939.