Language:
English
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Social Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
10,1 (2003) 117-150
Keywords:
Shehitah
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Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Shows how the "Schächtfrage" (the issue of the way animals were slaughtered for food) involved other German political and social issues in addition to antisemitism, which in the 1880s had little significance in the debates. From the 1890s, however, as the issue became of interest to a wider public than just reformers, antisemitism was both knowingly and unwittingly propelled into the public arena. Jewish ritual slaughter was only one aspect of the question, which also involved animal protection, issues of local or national authority, and minority rights. While antisemitic stereotypes and myths were crucial to some arguments, certain conservative (e.g. Catholic) groups favored making exceptions for the Jews in terms of their practices. Such exceptions, in fact, were not uncommon in many German localities.
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