Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Studies in Contemporary Jewry
Angaben zur Quelle:
15 (1999) 3-18
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1500-
;
Jews History 1500-
Abstract:
Rejects the view which sees modern antisemitism as a criticism of Jewish responsibility for modernism and "urbanity"; challenges the idea that the Jews had a central role in the evolution of the modern city. Focusing on Germany, argues that since the late Middle Ages anti-Jewish systems of knowledge have been a continuous feature of city life, with the Jews being marginalized. This is linked to expulsions, ritual murder charges, and the view of the Jews as strangers in a Christian society that wanted to be cleansed of them. States that modern antisemitism is connected with the apparent success of emancipation, which was interpreted as an irreversible defeat for the urban modernity that excluded the Jews. The political aim of this antisemitism was to reclaim the city from the Jews. German antisemitism in the 1870s-80s attempted to place limitations on the Jews, but did not demand a reversal of emancipation as did the Nazis later on.
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