Language:
German
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitgeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
26,3 (1999) 203-223
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews Sports
Abstract:
Chronicles violent antisemitic incidents in Austria at competitive sports events involving teams of the Jewish sports organization Hakoah or other teams with large numbers of Jews. Young bullies and street children attacked Jewish spectators; sometimes members of the rival team intentionally injured Jewish players. At the universtities, Jewish fraternities were not considered worthy of defending their honor in saber duels; instead there were bloody fights with fists, canes, and rubber truncheons. More and more young Jews defended themselves; at times they were the attackers. Hakoah formed a defense squad to protect the Leopoldstadt from antisemitic rioters. The anti-Nazi dictatorship of the "Ständestaat" suppressed such violence. After the Anschluss, some top Jewish athletes were aided by their "Aryan" rivals. Argues that the physical antisemitism of the 1920s contradicts the thesis that until the Nazi period there existed only "cultural antisemitism", which, however vicious, stopped short of aggressive action.
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