Language:
German
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Menora; Jahrbuch für deutsch-jüdische Geschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
3 (1992) 23-48
Keywords:
Lubarsch, Otto,
;
Borchardt, Rudolf,
;
Self-hate (Psychology)
;
Jews Identity
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Surveys psychological explanations of what is commonly called "Jewish self-hatred" in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany. Relates it to the immigration or transit through Germany of East European Jews, who reminded the German Jews uncomfortably of the ways of their grandparents from which they had succeeded in emancipating themselves; they hated the East European Jews as a threat to their security as Germans. Analyzes the cases of the renowned pathologist Otto Lubarsch, a baptized Jew who was a convinced antisemite and rightist to the point of welcoming Hitler, and the writer Rudolf Borchardt. Disputes the common assertion that Borchardt was a self-hating Jew; his family had been baptized for generations and he no longer saw himself as a Jew. He regarded the Jews from a distance, but not with hostility.
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