Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Central European History
Angaben zur Quelle:
32,4 (1999) 409-429
Keywords:
Virchow, Rudolf,
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews Medicine
;
Jews Science
Abstract:
Virchow was a well-known opponent of antisemitism. Contends that, paradoxically, the anthropological study designed by Virchow and conducted under his guidance in the 1870s in schools throughout Germany provided an important practical basis for German racial antisemitism. Virchow's survey led him to the conclusion that there was a separate and single "Jewish race" in Germany, and it made antisemitic racism a popular skill even before it became a generally accepted doctrine. The survey taught Germans not so much to think as to experience themselves in terms of "whiteness" and "brownness, " and to recognize racial distinctions between Jews and non-Jews in Germany.
DOI:
10.1017/S0008938900021762
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