Language:
German
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
Philosophisches Denken, politisches Wirken
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1993) 222-249
Keywords:
Cohen, Hermann,
;
Böckel, Otto,
;
Lagarde, Paul de,
;
Jews History 19th century
;
Antisemitism History 19th century
;
Universities and colleges
;
Marburg (Germany)
Abstract:
Discusses Cohen’s sharp reactions to a case of antisemitism, explained against the background of the antisemitic climate at the time in northern Hesse, particularly in Marburg, the center of Otto Böckel’s antisemitic peasant movement. Cohen, as a professor at the University of Marburg, suffered personally from antisemitic colleagues and students. In 1886 a member of Böckel’s party, Ferdinand Fenner, said in a campaign speech that the Talmud teaches Jews to be scoundrels. The chief rabbi of Marburg thereupon instituted legal proceedings against him. Paul de Lagarde and Hermann Cohen were asked to submit memoranda. Lagarde’s was viciously antisemitic, although he did not support Fenner’s assertion. Cohen countered Lagarde’s allegations and defended Jewish ethics. For this he was attacked not only by the Böckel movement but also by Protestant church journals. The experience made him less optimistic about the progress of liberalism, and more of a conscious Jew.
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