Language:
German
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Arche Noah
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2002) 305-319
Keywords:
Kuh, Anton,
;
Kraus, Karl,
;
Antisemitism History 20th century
;
Self-hate (Psychology)
;
Jews Identity
Abstract:
Deals with a conflict that arose between the Austrian Jewish journalists Anton Kuh and Karl Kraus. In an attack which took place during a public speech in Vienna in 1925, Kuh described Kraus as a typical representative of Jewish self-hatred. Discusses the attack in the context of the heated debates which usually accompanied the then-popular lecture events, and traces how self-hatred became a key category in Kuh’s understanding of modern Judaism and its cultural mission. Kuh drew a parallel between the dominant German patriarchal culture and a minority of German self-hatred, and the dominant Jewish patriarchal culture and minority of Jewish self-hatred, positioning them as mirror images. Argues that Kuh’s attack on Kraus occurred in connection to Kuh's idea that the energies bound up in German and Jewish self-hatred needed to be brought together and channeled into a productive rebellion against patriarchal authority. Kuh was born in 1890 in Vienna and died in 1941 in exile in the U.S.
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