Language:
German
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Aschkenas; Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden
Angaben zur Quelle:
6,1 (1996) 163-182
Keywords:
Rohrer, Joseph,
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism in literature
Abstract:
Comments that the ideology of the Enlightenment, while it attacked traditional dogma, was itself dogmatic and sought to force its views on the whole population. It was intolerant of those Jews who clung to their old customs, which it saw as neither rational nor useful. Quotes extensively from works published in 1804 by the Austrian official Joseph Rohrer. He blamed Jewish exploitation and unproductiveness for the poverty in those parts of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire in which they were concentrated. He objected to all their characteristics, from their dirtiness to their lack of interest in anything but money and their contempt for Christians. He proposed interning Jews in workhouses and agricultural colonies in order to turn them into useful citizens.
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