Language:
English
Year of publication:
2011
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Jewish Identities
Angaben zur Quelle:
4,2 (2011) 29-48
Keywords:
Jüdische Rundschau
;
Jews History 1933-1939
;
Jews Periodicals
;
Zionism Periodicals
;
Zionism in the press
Abstract:
In the wake of the Nazi takeover, German Jews sought to reformulate their personal and collective identities. In these conditions, the Zionist newspaper "Jüdische Rundschau" presented to its readers, whose number grew considerably toward 1935, a positive program for fostering their Jewish identity on a personal level and for restoring intra-Jewish unity on a collective level. While agreeing with the Nazi ideological allegation that the Jews did not belong to the German national community and calling on Jews to return to the Jewish national community, the newspaper's editors nevertheless hoped for some acceptable status for German Jews within the Reich and continued to believe that the Jews could exist if not within, then side by side with the German "Volk". The "Jüdische Rundschau" mourned the death of Hindenburg in 1934 and protested against excluding Jews from the universal military draft of 1935. However, the promulgation of the Nuremberg Laws, which denied the German citizenship of Jews, in September 1935 did not leave any hope for a co-existence of Jews with the racist Germany. An editorial by Rabbi Joachim Prinz called on Jews to "rediscover the old Motherland", i.e. to leave Germany for the Land of Israel, and the paper began to focus more on emigration to the Holy Land.
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