Language:
German
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
46,3 (1994) 211-234
Keywords:
Heinemann, Isaak,
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Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Summarizes antisemitic lectures by two German theologians in the tradition of Stöcker: Reinhold Seeberg's "Antisemitismus, Judentum und Kirche" (1922) and Otto Procksch's "Altes Testament und Judentum" (1921) - and a reply by the Jewish scholar Isaak Heinemann, "Vom 'jüdischen Geist'" (1924). Both theologians describe not so much actual Jews but an abstract Jewish spirit of modernism, materialism, internationalism, capitalism, Bolshevism, etc., which has infiltrated and is destroying German culture. Both, however, denounce racism and defend Christianity against "Aryanization". They see the solution not in coercive measures but in the strengthening of Christianity - Proksch also in the conversion of the Jews. Heinemann, in reply, stresses the spiritual and ethical character of Jewish tradition and argues that emancipated Jews are not the originators of the destructive trends of which they are accused but are their victims as much as are the secularized Christians. In his essay "Zwischen den Völkern" (1934) he calls on Jews, now that emancipation has been revoked, to return to their tradition and bring about a Jewish renaissance.
DOI:
10.1163/157007394X00121
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