Language:
German
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde
Angaben zur Quelle:
104 (2004) 83-116
Keywords:
Stöcker, Adolf,
;
Jews
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews Periodicals
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Christianity and antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Describes Stöcker's use of antisemitic politics to return Germans to Christianity. He opposed modernization, which was widely identified with Jews, he accused them of worshiping "Mammon", and he believed that they endangered the unity between the German Protestant Church and the German state. Stöcker's doctrine appealed to the lower middle classes; they accepted his social ideas but not his religious ones. In contrast, his visit to Basel in April 1881 left an impression more in the religious than in the social realm. Switzerland, like Germany, was in crisis, but in Basel this pertained more to the conservative, pious, upper bourgeoisie and the conservative wing of the Reformed Church. Together they dominated the city and were alarmed by democratization and by the growing liberal tendencies in the Church, rather than by economic modernization from which they profited. Analyzes the treatment of Jews in four church papers: three transmitted antisemitic stereotypes while the fourth defended Jews. While all of them printed appreciative articles on Stöcker's lectures, their views were independent of his. To ward off the danger of the Jews as well as of antisemitic violence against the Jews, they advocated a strong Church which would meet the Jews with love and convert them to Christianity. Concludes that although the "Jewish question" was less acute in Switzerland than in Germany, antisemitism was widespread, though expressed with patrician restraint.
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