Language:
German
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Chajim H. Steinthal
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2002) 153-170
Keywords:
Steinthal, Heymann,
;
Antisemitism History 19th century
Abstract:
Discusses a collection of essays by Steinthal which appeared in various periodicals in the last decades of the 19th century; the collection was published in 1906, seven years after his death. The first two sections comprise articles against antisemitism and pleas for loyalty to Judaism in the face of antisemitism. However, in the preface he later wrote to the first section, Steinthal despairs of the possibility of changing the attitudes of antisemites, because their expressed motives are not their true ones: they demand the assimilation of the Jews, but in fact want to see them unassimilated and contemptible. The other sections contain miscellaneous articles, many of them touching on the nature of Jewish identity and its relationship to German nationality, in the light of Steinthal's ethnological theories: he insisted that German Jews were an integral part of the German people. Mentions that the term "antisemitic" first appeared in 1860 in Steinschneider's bibliographic description of an article by Steinthal against Renan's denigration of the "Semitic peoples".
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