Language:
German
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
102,3 (1991) 319-347
Keywords:
Friedländer, David,
;
Teller, Wilhelm Abraham,
;
Paalzow, Christian Ludwig,
;
Hermes, Hermann Daniel,
;
Schleiermacher, Friedrich,
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 18th century
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 19th century
;
Jews History 18th century
;
Jews History 19th century
Abstract:
Examines responses to David Friedländer's open letter of 1799 to Probst Wilhelm Abraham Teller, on the possibilities of Jewish conversion and emancipation. The responses are evidence of the interplay of religious and Enlightenment anti-Judaism in the genesis of modern antisemitism. The jurist Christian Ludwig Paalzow, clergyman Hermann Daniel Hermes, and Teller himself advocated assimilation or conversion. Friedrich Schleiermacher, in an early version of the accusation that the Jews form "a state within the state", demanded the renunciation of all elements of Judaism (Jewish law, messianism) that prejudice the Jews' loyalty to the German state. Concludes that all of the above persons saw a radical opposition between Christianity and Judaism, which was considered a "dead" and worthless religion. Since there was little hope that most Jews would meet their conditions, whether by conversion or moral improvement through education, they prepared the way for the condemnation of Jews as a race.
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