Language:
English
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
Angaben zur Quelle:
40 (1995) 85-106
Keywords:
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix,
;
Koreff, Johann Ferdinand,
;
Stahl, Friedrich Julius,
;
Gans, Eduard,
;
Jews History 19th century
;
Christian converts from Judaism Biography
Abstract:
Examining a lithograph of the "Hep! Hep!" riot in Frankfurt in 1819, draws attention to the figure of a well-dressed and clearly high-positioned Christian beating a similarly well-dressed Jew. The hatred toward assimilated Jews, "Salon-Jews", became conspicuous in Germany after the Napoleonic wars and acquired racist motifs. Analyzes the motives of four prominent Jewish converts in Berlin in that period: Felix Mendelssohn, the physician David (after conversion, Johann) Ferdinand Koreff, and two professors of law - Friedrich Julius Stahl and Eduard Gans. Their conversion failed to protect them from "beatings of Christian gentlemen", albeit in milder forms: mockery, discrimination, or social ostracism. For instance, Koreff never obtained a promised clinic, despite his baptism. Stahl, with all his Christian fervor, felt nostalgia for Jewish rituals; both Stahl and Gans led solitary lives.
Note:
Record created automatically from multi-article record # 000095164
DOI:
10.1093/leobaeck/40.1.107
DOI:
10.1093/leobaeck/40.1.123
DOI:
10.1093/leobaeck/40.1.65
DOI:
10.1093/leobaeck/40.1.85
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