Language:
English
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Shvut; Studies in Russian and East European Jewish History and Culture
Angaben zur Quelle:
3 [19] (1996) 1-29
Keywords:
Berdi︠a︡ev, Nikolaĭ,
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism
Abstract:
In the beginning of his creative period, the Russian philosopher Berdyaev (1874-1948) was close to religious antisemitism, which he regarded as the only serious kind of antisemitism. Opposed to political antisemitism and the persecution of Jews, in the period of the Russian revolution and immediately afterwards he nevertheless depicted Jews negatively (in his "The Philosophy of Inequality" and "The Essence of History") as the main source of all movements (like socialism and communism) striving to realize God's kingdom on earth. In 1922 he was expelled from the Soviet Union; after a period in Berlin, he settled in Paris in 1925. Under the impact of the Nazi takeover in Germany, Berdyaev revised his attitudes toward the Jews, and in his "Christianity and Antisemitism" (1938) he followed the philosemitic tradition of Vladimir Soloviev.
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