Language:
German
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
55,2 (2005) 196-214
Keywords:
Burckhardt, Jacob,
;
Rotteck, Carl von,
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Antisemitism History 18th century
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Antisemitism History 19th century
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Antisemitism History 19th century
Abstract:
Rotteck (1775-1840) was a leading member of the Baden legislature. Despite his liberalism, he opposed citizenship for Jews until they gave up what was in his eyes a petrified, irrational and antisocial religion. Burckhardt (1818-1897), the renowned Basel humanist, detested Jews and opposed giving them a foothold in the town and in the Gau. Cites views of contemporaries of both these men, showing that many were even more hostile to Jews while others were more tolerant. Comments that neither man was a racist antisemite and that, given their social context, it is possible to understand rather than condemn them. But both helped to strengthen anti-Jewish prejudices. Burckhardt, together with others of the Basel elite of his time, passed on a fear of "Überfremdung" (the country being flooded by aliens), specifically Jews, which resulted, in the Nazi period, in Switzerland's rejection of Jewish refugees at the cost of thousands of Jewish lives.
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