Language:
English
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
Angaben zur Quelle:
40 (1995) 185-208
Keywords:
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews
Abstract:
The stance of Baden's liberals toward the emancipation of the Jews was mostly negative in the 1830s-early 1840s. The liberals in the Baden Diet regarded the "Jewish question" as national and social rather than religious, and in 1831, together with the conservatives, rejected the petition on Jewish rights. What made the liberals recast the "Jewish question" and in 1846 vote for Jewish emancipation was not their commitment to universal equality, but growing conflict with the Catholic conservatives. The latter tried to suppress the Catholic dissenter movement ("Deutschkatholiken") and used antisemitic arguments against them, referring to the Christian and anti-Jewish sentiments of the common people. Two conservative writers, Franz Josef Buss and Alban Stolz, were especially successful in this type of rhetoric. The burgeoning activities of the conservatives, the storm of petitions organized by them, caused the liberals to reframe how they understood the "Jewish question" and to revise their previous stance on it.
Note:
Appeared also in "Protestants, Catholics and Jews in Germany, 1800-1914" (2001) 185-215.
DOI:
10.1093/leobaeck/40.1.185
URL:
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