Language:
German
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Das Jüdische Echo
Angaben zur Quelle:
40 (1991) 61-66
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Traces the development of Christian Socialism in Austria and its relations with the Catholic Church. States that in the latter half of the 19th century, industrialists, many of them Jews, accumulated wealth at the expense of the aristocracy and the laboring class. Members of the Catholic aristocracy helped influence Pope Leo XIII to issue his encyclical "Rerum Novarum" (1891) against both socialism and unrestrained capitalism. Although "Rerum Novarum" did not mention Jews, and the Austrian aristocrats who supported it did not share in the primitive form of antisemitism then sweeping the Empire, the encyclical was cited by Lueger's Christian Social Party as the basis of its program, which was accompanied by antisemitic demagogy. The party won the support of the Pope, who warned mildly against too pronounced an antisemitism. But the party's anti-Jewish agitation became more rabid over the years.
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