Language:
German
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Das Jüdische Echo
Angaben zur Quelle:
48 (1999) 308-318
Keywords:
Kraus, Karl,
;
Self-hate (Psychology)
;
Jews Identity
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Traces the spread of religious (Catholic), nationalistic (German), and racist antisemitism throughout society and in most of the political parties of Austria in the late 19th-early 20th centuries, and Jewish reactions ranging from militant opposition through Zionism to the hopeless attempt to assimilate. Accuses Kraus of lack of solidarity with the Jews: he saw in them only despicable qualities which they must throw off, he attacked Jews who represented trends he opposed (modernism, liberalism) by pointing up their Jewishness - making common cause with leading antisemites, and he even ridiculed the Dreyfusards. Only in the 1930s did he tone down his anti-Jewish polemic. Nevertheless, Kraus did not suffer from Jewish self-hatred, like Weininger; he scorned racist antisemitism.
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