Language:
German
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Exil
Angaben zur Quelle:
19,1 (1999) 5-22
Keywords:
Gumpert, Martin,
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews Identity
Abstract:
Gumpert, a German-Jewish physician and writer for whom assimilation was almost an ideology, wrote a series of memoirs about his life before and after his emigration to New York in 1936. While he describes the Nazi takeover and Nazi brutality with great perceptiveness, he shows a strange emotional distance in his very brief references to antisemitic excesses and to measures that must have affected him personally. Attributes this partly to the deceptive inconsistency and ambiguity of early Nazi policy, but mainly to the need of assimilated Jews of his class to feel themselves wholly German, and to shut their eyes to the antisemitism about them - antisemitism that belonged to "uncultured" people and therefore was outside their "cultured" world.
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