Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
מעוף ומעשה
Angaben zur Quelle:
3 (1997) 79-101
Keywords:
הרצל, בנימין זאב,
;
Antisemitism Philosophy
Abstract:
In the 1880s in Vienna, Herzl saw antisemitism as an insignificant, temporary phenomenon. In his "Diary of Youth" (1882) he wrote apologetically, stating that the Jews did have negative characteristics, but they stemmed from persecution and ghetto life. He advocated assimilation and intermarriage in order to change the physiological characteristics of Jews which set them apart. He related to antisemitism again in his writings as a journalist in Paris in 1892. Seeing the growing antisemitism in France, including the Dreyfus Affair, he realized that the Jews could not depend on European enlightenment to solve the problem. After reading Drumont, Herzl began to understand the history of anti-Jewish hatred and to criticize French antisemites in his essays. By 1896, when he wrote "The Jewish State, " Herzl saw antisemitism as a product of European nationalism; he realized that it was not temporary and that assimilation was not a solution.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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