Language:
English
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
Angaben zur Quelle:
36 (1991) 229-240
Keywords:
Hasenclever, Wilhelm
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Differentiates between antipathy for the Jews - a feeling of loathing which is a pre-condition for Judeophobia - and antisemitism, which can exist without the former. Contends that the Socialists remained ideologically in the ambiguous ground between the two - they maintained a popular heritage of Judeophobia and, like the antisemites, they tended to consider the Jews a corrupting capitalist element, but they opposed antisemitism. Describes the views of Hasenclever, a leader of the Social Democratic Party, as expressed in his pamphlet "Der Wahrheit die Ehre: Ein Beitrag zur Judenfrage in Deutschland" (1881) published under a pseudonym (Wilhelm Revel). Both Hasenclever's essay and Marx's essay of 1844 are imbued with antipathy towards the Jew as a type, but oppose antisemitism. Examines Hasenclever's ideas as representative of his party's mood. He was obsessed with combating the Reichstag's law against socialism, and felt that the passionate concern for the Jewish Question (in Germany and Russia in 1881) served as a distraction from this issue. He strongly attacked philosemitism for this reason, and also because it obstructed the goal of Jewish assimilation. Sketches the views of Franz Mehring, who justified antipathy towards the Jews as the ambiguous ground between anti- and philosemitism. The first united congress of the Second International, convened in 1891, denounced both antisemitism and philosemitism. States that both Hasenclever and Mehring would have been
Abstract:
surprised to see what a small step separated this antipathy from antisemitism, as became evident during the Third Reich.
DOI:
10.1093/leobaeck/36.1.229
URL:
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