Language:
German
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Euphorion; Zeitschrift für Literaturgeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
103,1 (2009) 51-61
Keywords:
Auerbach, Berthold,
;
Kleine Reaktionär
;
Jews Periodicals
;
Antisemitism in the press
Abstract:
On 31 January 1863 Auerbach delivered the eulogy on the poet Ludwig Uhland at a meeting in his memory at the Berlin Press Club. The satirical weekly "Der kleine Reactionär" seized the opportunity to attack the liberalization of Germany, by attacking its supposed agents, the Jews. Week after week both before and after Auerbach's speech it pilloried Jews who dared lay claim to German culture and German poets as though they belonged to them. Describes a cartoon published by the journal, also in January 1863, in which a repulsive figure, identifiable both as a Jew and as a liberal, forces himsself sexually on the maiden Germania. Comments that this is the source of later (and milder!) cartoons, and that it shows that antisemitism did not begin only in the 1870s, but already existed and was used for political purposes in the 1860s.
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