Language:
German
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Modern Austrian Literature
Angaben zur Quelle:
30,1 (1997) 48-68
Keywords:
Roth, Joseph,
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism in literature
;
Austrian literature History and criticism
Abstract:
As a journalist in Germany in the early 1920s, Roth reported extensively on personalities of the radical right, including the accused at the Rathenau assassination trial, and noted their violent antisemitism and their reliance on the "Aryan Bible" - the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion". He was repelled by the relatively large numbers of Jews active in radical right groups. On these personalities, including the Jews, he based the characters in his novel "Das Spinnennetz" (1923), an account of the career of a right-wing youth. Ottwald's "Ruhe und Ordnung" portrays a similar group of youths but pays only slight attention to their antisemitism.
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