Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
S: I. M. O. N.
Angaben zur Quelle:
8,3 (2021) 33-47
Keywords:
Scheuer, Oskar Franz, Political and social views
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Jewish physicians Biography
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Jews Public opinion
Abstract:
A dermatologist by training, Franz Oskar Scheuer (1876–c.1941) renounced his Jewish ancestry in order to embrace the German nationalism associated with the student fraternitiesFidelitas and Allemannia. As the editor of the magazine Deutsche Hochschule (German University) between 1910 and 1922, Scheuer found himself at the centre of debates over Jewishdifference, Zionism, Germanness, and anti-semitism. After criticising Vienna’s Zionists before the First World War, Scheuer argued for the importance of tolerating Jews once Austria’sfraternities became increasingly anti-semitic. His polemics and his use of historical researchprovide valuable insights into the delicate balance that nationalist Germans of Jewish descent had to maintain during the first decades of the twentieth century.
DOI:
10.23777/SN.0221/ART_RCLA01
URL:
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