Language:
English
Year of publication:
1985
Titel der Quelle:
Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
Angaben zur Quelle:
30 (1985) 105-140
Keywords:
Zionism History 20th century
;
Jews History 1918-1933
;
Antisemitism History 1918-1933
Abstract:
Notes that historians who have been studying the Zionist press of the Weimar period have concluded that the Zionist movement did not respond to the antisemitism of that period in Germany. Reinharz contends that the Zionists were far from complacent, but cooperation with the Centralverein was impossible for them. The Zionists recognized the Centralverein as experts in Jewish defense activity, but the organization was viewed as the Zionists' "assimilationist" opponents. By 1932, the Zionists admitted that emigration to Palestine could not solve the immediate problem of the Jews in Germany, and they offered mainly psychological and moral help.
Note:
A slightly abridged version of this article appeared as "The Zionist response to antisemitism in the Weimar Republic" in "The Jewish Response to German Culture" (1985) 266-293.
DOI:
10.1093/leobaeck/30.1.105
URL:
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