Language:
German
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Evangelische Theologie
Angaben zur Quelle:
54,1 (1994) 23-44
Keywords:
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Jews Cultural assimilation
;
Christian converts from Judaism
Abstract:
Based on a lecture delivered at a conference on the fate of Protestants of Jewish descent in Germany, held in Mülheim (Ruhr), April 1993. Discusses the "Hep-Hep" riots of 1819, as seen through the horrified eyes of Rahel Varnhagen; she wrote that the German people were claiming their traditional license to persecute the Jews, and the Churches were doing nothing to restrain them. Argues that the pogroms were a disappointment to those Jews who had seen the progress of emancipation since the end of the 18th century; this was an emancipation that required the Jews to give up their Jewish identity. In time, German Jews obtained political equality but remained outsiders in society. Their efforts to demonstrate their integration and patriotism, as well as to combat antisemitism (e.g. through the Centralverein) met with little response from Germans in general. Again, during the Nazi period, the Protestant Churches failed to protect even their own converts.
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