Language:
German
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Heinrich Mann-Jahrbuch
Angaben zur Quelle:
20 (2002) 27-47
Keywords:
Treitschke, Heinrich von,
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews
Abstract:
Based on a lecture held at a study day in Berlin, May 2002. After describing the great prosperity of many of Berlin's Jews, their culture and way of life, traces the rise of antisemitism from the 1870s. Along with traditional satirical stereotypes, there was political propaganda stigmatizing the Jews as outsiders endangering the German "Volk" - a state within a state. Though antisemitic parties like Stöcker's had only limited success, their message was taken over by mainstream conservative parties, while the liberal parties were afraid of voters' reactions to Jewish candidates and these now appeared only on the lists of the Social Democrats. The renewed surge of antisemitism in the 1890s prompted the establishment of the mainly Christian Abwehrverein and the Jewish Centralverein. The most influential disseminator of antisemitism was Heinrich von Treitschke, both in his writings and in his highly popular university lectures. His prominence as a scholar, his entertaining style, the seeming moderation and respectability of his antisemitism, made it accepted in circles that rejected "Radauantisemitismus" (mob antisemitism).
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