Language:
English
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
Angaben zur Quelle:
43 (1998) 129-153
Keywords:
Neumann, Salomon,
;
Treitschke, Heinrich von,
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
The "Berlin controversy on antisemitism" was launched by Heinrich von Treitschke, who in 1879-80 published several papers in which he particularly singled out the "massive" Jewish immigration to Germany as a great menace. In 1880 the Berlin Jewish physician and statistician Salomon Neumann (1819-1908) wrote the pamphlet "Fabel von der jüdischen Masseneinwanderung" (with a supplement published in 1881), in which he refuted Treitschke's claims. Using specific figures, Neumann demonstrated that the growth of the Jewish population in Prussia's eastern provinces was mainly due to natural increase. He also objected to the racial approach to the Jews characteristic of contemporary antisemites. Although Treitschke admitted in 1881 that he was wrong on the issue of the "massive" Jewish immigration to Germany, neither Neumann nor Virchow, with the latter's anthropological survey of schoolchildren throughout Germany, were able to neutralize the antisemitic claim of an influx of racially alien Jews to the country.
DOI:
10.1093/leobaeck/43.1.129
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