Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Germanic Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
83,4 (2008) 343-363
Schlagwort(e):
Lessing, Theodor,
;
Self-hate (Psychology)
;
Jews Identity
;
Zionism Philosophy
Kurzfassung:
Defends the use of the term "Jewish self-hatred" and offers a genealogy of this controversial term. The rhetoric of Jewish antisemites, antisemitic Jews, and Jewish self-hatred developed in the context of debates on Zionism in turn-of-the-century Germany and Austria; all sides in the debates resorted to it, often as a cynical polemical label against opponents. The book that popularized the specific phrase "Jewish self-hatred" was Theodor Lessing's study of 1930, "Der jüdische Selbsthaß". In the early 1900s Lessing developed his own idiosyncratic kind of cultural Zionism, at the core of which was an aversion to excessive intellectualism of Jews. After World War I his Zionism underwent transformations - Lessing put greater emphasis on cultural particularity, but also castigated his fellow Jews for hyper-reflexivity, diminished vitality, and estrangement from life. All this became the core of his book "Jewish Self-Hatred" and introduced its title as a usable term.
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