Jewish Responses To Anti Semitism In Germany 1870 1914

Author : Sanford Ragins
Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1980-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780878201365

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Jewish Responses to Anti-Semitism in Germany, 1870-1914 by Sanford Ragins Pdf

This book is a study of a community under attack, and its goal is to describe, analyze, and illuminate the response of that community to a series of unexpected and deeply threatening developments. Just a few years after achieving full civil emancipation in 1871, the Jews of Germany were confronted with a sudden surge of anti-Jewish hostility different from anything they had ever experienced before. The new "anti-Semitism" (the word was coined at this time) was complex movement emanating from diverse groups in German society and using a variety of tactics and ideological formulations. Dr. Ragins' study is an attempt to understand how the German Jewish community responded to anti-Semitism during the decades before World War I, and, especially, why it reacted as it did. The central argument of the book is that German Jewry defended itself against modern anti-Semitism with all the ideological, legal, and organizational weapons at its disposal, and that the liberal Jews of Germany mounted the best possible defenses which could be achieved in their historical circumstances. Among the topics treated are the emergence of the Centralverein, the attempt to form a common front with the Orthodox community against the anti-Semites, and the responses of Jewish spokesmen to the racial ideologies which made their first appearance in public discussion during this period. Just as Jewish liberation reached what may have been its culmination, however, a serious dissent from the position of the established community was created by the young people of Herzl's Zionist movement, and this dramatically new development is studied in some detail. In analyzing the way in which the first German Zionists responded to anti-Semitism, we understand something about the power as well as the limitations of Jewish liberalism, and we also comprehend the rise of an ideology that was to have great significance in the Jewish future.

Author : Ismar Schorsch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN : 0231036434

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Columbia University Studies in Jewish History, Culture and Institutions by Ismar Schorsch Pdf

Author : Sanford Ragins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1067374554

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Jewish Responses to Anti-Semitism in Germany by Sanford Ragins Pdf

Author : Brian E. Crim
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739188569

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Antisemitism in the German Military Community and the Jewish Response, 1914–1938 by Brian E. Crim Pdf

Antisemitism in the German Military Community and the Jewish Response, 1914–1938 explores how German World War I veterans from different social and political backgrounds contributed to antisemitic politics during the Weimar Republic. The book compares how the military, right-wing veterans, and Jewish veterans chose to remember their war experiences and translate these memories into a political reality in the postwar world. Antisemitism addresses several neglected issues. First, there is relatively little scholarship discussing antisemitism in the imperial German army and the impact former imperial officers had on the antisemitic predilections of veteran associations. This subject deserves attention given that veteran politics during the Weimar Republic were of tremendous significance to the collapse of democracy and the rise of National Socialism, and that the primary architects of the Third Reich and the “Final Solution” were either World War I veterans or had been members of paramilitary organizations in the interwar period. The second issue addressed is how veterans influenced the definition of “Aryan” identity, or how race came to be perceived through the prism of war and political violence. Since German Jews had to fight both accusations of shirking military service and the perception of the “Jew” as effeminate, the manner in which these veterans tried to reforge Jewish identity and their relationship with their former comrades is an extraordinarily important issue. The third issue concerns situational antisemitism, or the process by which an organization expressed an opinion or policy concerning Jews in response to internal dissension and external influences.

Author : Donald L. Niewyk
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1412837529

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The Jews in Weimar Germany by Donald L. Niewyk Pdf

The first comprehensive history of the German Jews on the eve of Hitler's seizure of power, this book examines both their internal debates and their relations with larger German society. It shows that, far from being united, German Jewry was deeply divided along religious, political, and ideological fault lines. Above all, the liberal majority of patriotic and assimilationist Jews was forced to sharpen its self-definition by the onslaught of Zionist zealots who denied the "Germanness" of the Jews. This struggle for the heart and soul of German Jewry was fought at every level, affecting families, synagogues, and community institutions. Although the Jewish role in Germany's economy and culture was exaggerated, they were certainly prominent in many fields, giving rise to charges of privilege and domination. This volume probes the texture of German anti-Semitism, distinguishing between traditional and radical Judeophobia and reaching conclusions that will give no comfort to those who assume that Germans were predisposed to become "willing executioners" under Hitler. It also assesses the quality of Jewish responses to racist attacks. The self-defense campaigns of the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith included publishing counter-propaganda, supporting sympathetic political parties, and taking anti-Semitic demagogues to court. Although these measures could only slow the rise of Nazism after 1930, they demonstrate that German Jewry was anything but passive in its responses to the fascist challenge. The German Jews' faith in liberalism is sometimes attributed to self-delusion and wishful thinking. This volume argues that, in fact, German Jewry pursued a clear-sighted perception of Jewish self-interest, apprehended the dangers confronting it, and found allies in socialist and democratic elements that constituted the "other Germany." Sadly, this profound and genuine commitment to liberalism left the German Jews increasingly isolated as the majority of Germans turned to political radicalism in the last years of the Republic. This full-scale history of Weimar Jewry will be of interest to professors, students, and general readers interested in the Holocaust and Jewish History. Donald L. Niewyk studied at the Free University of Berlin and Tulane. He has taught at Xavier University and Ithaca College, and since 1982, he has been a professor of modern European history at Southern Methodist University. He is author of six books, including most recently Fresh Wounds: Early Narratives of Holocaust Survival.

Author : Donald L. Niewyk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351303620

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Jews in Weimar Germany by Donald L. Niewyk Pdf

The first comprehensive history of the German Jews on the eve of Hitler's seizure of power, this book examines both their internal debates and their relations with larger German society. It shows that, far from being united, German Jewry was deeply divided along religious, political, and ideological fault lines. Above all, the liberal majority of patriotic and assimilationist Jews was forced to sharpen its self-definition by the onslaught of Zionist zealots who denied the "Germanness" of the Jews. This struggle for the heart and soul of German Jewry was fought at every level, affecting families, synagogues, and community institutions.Although the Jewish role in Germany's economy and culture was exaggerated, they were certainly prominent in many fields, giving rise to charges of privilege and domination. This volume probes the texture of German anti-Semitism, distinguishing between traditional and radical Judeophobia and reaching conclusions that will give no comfort to those who assume that Germans were predisposed to become "willing executioners" under Hitler. It also assesses the quality of Jewish responses to racist attacks. The self-defense campaigns of the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith included publishing counter-propaganda, supporting sympathetic political parties, and taking anti-Semitic demagogues to court. Although these measures could only slow the rise of Nazism after 1930, they demonstrate that German Jewry was anything but passive in its responses to the fascist challenge.The German Jews' faith in liberalism is sometimes attributed to self-delusion and wishful thinking. This volume argues that, in fact, German Jewry pursued a clear-sighted perception of Jewish self-interest, apprehended the dangers confronting it, and found allies in socialist and democratic elements that constituted the "other Germany." Sadly, this profound and genuine commitment to liberalism left the German Jews increasingly isolated as the majority of Germans turned to political radicalism in the last years of the Republic. This full-scale history of Weimar Jewry will be of interest to professors, students, and general readers interested in the Holocaust and Jewish History.

Author : Sonja Weinberg
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN : 3631602146

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Pogroms and Riots by Sonja Weinberg Pdf

The years 1881-82 witnessed almost simultaneous waves of pogroms in eastern Germany (western Prussia, Pomerania, and Posen) and southern Russia; in both countries, the pogroms followed periods of reforms that improved in some way the situation of the Jews. Examines the responses of four mainstream newspapers - the conservative Protestant "Neue Preussische Zeitung" (known as the "Kreuzzeitung"), the Catholic "Germania", the semi-official "Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung", and the Jewish "Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums". With the exception of the "AZJ", the papers indirectly justified and decriminalized the violence, which was a type of covert expression of opposition to Jewish emancipation and to the growing role of Jews in society. The "AZJ" tended to depict the pogroms, both in Russia and Germany, as planned and organized from above rather than as spontaneous popular outbreaks. The conservative non-Jewish papers, while deploring collective violence, discussed the extermination of the Jews as a possible option for the solution of the "Jewish question". Thus, they prepared the transformation of the seemingly "civilized" pre-1918 antisemitism into the post-1918 antisemitism that included violence both in word and deed.

Author : Brian E. Crim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0739194623

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Antisemitism in the German Military Community and the Jewish Response, 1914-1938 by Brian E. Crim Pdf

Antisemitism in the German Military Community and the Jewish Response, 1914 1938 explores how German World War I veterans from different social and political backgrounds contributed to antisemitic politics during the Weimar Republic. The book compares how the military, right-wing veterans, and Jewish veterans chose to remember their war experiences and translate these memories into a political reality in the postwar world. Brian E. Crim reveals that contested legacies of World War I influenced the growth and content of German antisemitism prior to the Third Reich."

Author : Uriel Tal
Publisher : Ithaca : Cornell University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015011408575

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Christians and Jews in Germany by Uriel Tal Pdf

Overzicht van de relatie tussen Joden en niet Joden in Duitsland gedurende de beslissende decennia vóór de eerste wereldoorlog, waarin het groeiende anti-semitisme steeds meer politiek gewicht kreeg

Author : Jack Wertheimer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1987-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198021575

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Unwelcome Strangers by Jack Wertheimer Pdf

When East European Jews migrated westward in ever larger numbers between 1870 and 1914, both German government officials and the leaders of German Jewry were confronted by a series of new challenges. What policies did government leaders devise to cope with the seemingly unending tide of Jews flooding across Germany's borders? What was the actual, as opposed to the perceived, character of these Jewish migrants? How did native Jews respond to the arrival of coreligionists from the East? Drawing on archival research conducted in East and West Germany, Israel, and the United States, Unwelcome Strangers probes into these questions, touching on some of the most troubling issues in modern German and Jewish history--the behavior of Germans toward strangers in their midst, the status and self-perception of emancipated Jews in pre-Nazi Germany, and the responses of "privileged" Jews to needy, but alien, coreligionists.

Author : Paul W. Massing
Publisher : New York, Harper
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008447669

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Rehearsal for Destruction by Paul W. Massing Pdf

Deals with political antisemitism in Germany during the Second Empire (1871-1914). Through analysis of various antisemitic movements, parties, and groups active in this period, as well as of the German socioeconomic infrastructure, shows that antisemitism served mainly as a manipulatory political tool in the hands of Catholics, conservatives, and the traditional middle classes, who rejected the social, economic, and political orientations of the Second Empire.

Author : Shulamit Volkov
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139458115

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Germans, Jews, and Antisemites by Shulamit Volkov Pdf

The ferocity of the Nazi attack upon the Jews took many by surprise. Volkov argues that a new look at both the nature of antisemitism and at the complexity of modern Jewish life in Germany is required in order to provide an explanation. While antisemitism had a number of functions in pre-Nazi German society, it most particularly served as a cultural code, a sign of belonging to a particular political and cultural milieu. Surprisingly, it only had a limited effect on the lives of the Jews themselves. By the end of the nineteenth century, their integration was well advanced. Many of them enjoyed prosperity, prestige, and the pleasures of metropolitan life. This book stresses the dialectical nature of assimilation, the lead of the Jews in the processes of modernization, and, finally, their continuous efforts to 'invent' a modern Judaism that would fit their new social and cultural position.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN : 0759119082

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Jewish Responses to Persecution by Anonim Pdf

Author : Walter Laqueur,Judith Tydor Baumel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0300084323

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The Holocaust Encyclopedia by Walter Laqueur,Judith Tydor Baumel Pdf

Provides hundreds of entries and over 250 photographs of such Holocaust related topics as antisemitism, euthanasia, and mischlinge, including biographical information on such notorious figures as Adolph Hitler, Josef Mengele, and Amon Goeth.

Author : Jehuda Reinharz
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0874514126

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Living with Antisemitism by Jehuda Reinharz Pdf

The issues are addressed in both a historical and theoretical context. several essays Center around questions which are often overlooked in similar works.