Language:
English
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas
Angaben zur Quelle:
37,4 (1989) 524-540
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Disputes the thesis of some historians that the Russian pogroms of the 1880s were inspired by German and Austrian antisemitism. True, German antisemitic tracts were widely published in the Russian press, but the pogroms were carried out by peasants and "Lumpenproletariat" who were certainly not influenced by the press. The situation of the Jews in Russia was so different from that of the emancipated Jews of Germany that the German antisemitic platform was irrelevant to Russia. Finally, the Russians rejected German racism; their Jew-hatred was based on religious and economic motives. Antisemitic Russian periodicals used German antisemitism not so much to bolster their own views as to taunt Europeans who had accused Russians of "barbarism." also analyzes the treatment of antisemitism in the Russian-language Jewish press.
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