Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
18,1 (2019) 75-91
Keywords:
Lux, Stefan,
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Jews Suicidal behavior
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Antisemitism History 20th century
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Geneva (Switzerland)
Abstract:
In 1936 Stefan Lux, a Jew born in Vienna, and naturalized in Czchoslovakia, shot himself during a session of the League of Nations in Geneva. The situation would become much more dire for German Jews in the coming years, and few sensed that anything akin to the Holocaust was in store. Lux believed he had timed his suicide precisely to bring attention to, and counteract, the problem of “statelessness” that was on the agenda of the League. Lux also feared that the defences Jews had utilized before 1933 to ward off antisemitism were no longer viable, as they were under assault by the entirety of the arts and cultural apparatus in Germany. This case illustrates both the prescience and limits of Lux’s carefully orchestrated suicide.
DOI:
10.1080/14725886.2018.1549197
URL:
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