Language:
English
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
Studia Judaica
Angaben zur Quelle:
18 (2010) 40-59
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews Cultural assimilation
;
Jews Cultural assimilation
Abstract:
A paper delivered at a conference held in Cluj-Napoca, October 2009.
Abstract:
While Jews appeared on the German-Austrian cultural scene from the late 18th century, in the Bismarck era they entered the mainstream of Central European life, engendering a rise in antisemitism which intensified greatly during the Weimar Republic and peaked under Nazi rule. That which was seen by the Jewish side as a great contribution to European culture and economy, was perceived by antisemites as a growing Jewish domination of the key spheres of modern life. The very intensity of Jewish acculturation exacerbated rather than diminished existing social, economic, political, and cultural tensions. Shows how leading Austrian-German Jewish intellectuals (e.g. Franz Kafka, Karl Kraus, Sigmund Freud, and Joseph Roth) tried to overcome their Jewish otherness and affirm their belonging to Europe, but in vain. 20th-century antisemitism assumed an ultra-racist character and strove for a total break between Germans and Jews.
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