Language:
German
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Judaica Bohemiae
Angaben zur Quelle:
33 (1998) 72-86
Keywords:
Jews
;
Jews
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
A revised version of a paper presented at the conference "Die konfessionellen Verhaeltnisse im Teschener Schlesien vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart", Cieszyn, October 1996. Discusses trends in national movements in Europe in general, and in the area of Teschen (in Czech, Těšín) in particular, and their antisemitic tendencies, in the course of the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. The majority of the population in Těšín was Slavic; amongst this group, there was a struggle between Poles and Czechs for dominance. The Germans in Těšín were supporters of liberalism and, as such, rejected antisemitism, while Jews who settled in the area adopted the same views, a fact which involved them in the struggle between Slavs and Germans and led to a renewal of economic and religious prejudice against the Jews. Mentions antisemitic assaults, accusations of well-poisoning, antisemitic articles in the press, etc. In 1899 the antisemitic agitation reached a critical point with the Polná ritual murder accusation and the trial of the Jew Leopold Hilsner. His release from prison in 1918 due to an amnesty evoked a wave of antisemitism.
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