Language:
German
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
3 (1994) 194-226
Keywords:
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Jews, East European
;
Germany Emigration and immigration
;
Europe, Eastern Emigration and immigration
Abstract:
Explores the relationship between the migration of East European Jews to or through Germany, German anti-Slavism, and the spread of antisemitism during the Wilhelmine period. Antisemitic allegations that East European Jews were flooding the country had no basis in reality; their numbers were in fact relatively small. However, their concentration in the border provinces and in a few large cities could strengthen that impression. Moreover, large numbers of migrants stopped over in Germany on their way overseas. The East European Jews were in fact strange in appearance and way of life, and like every migration, this one included some criminals and carriers of disease; thus, there was a kernel of truth to reinforce antisemitic stereotypes. Beyond this, however, hostility to East European Jews was closely bound up with German fear of Slavism, which threatened the unity of the newly-established state in its eastern regions.
Note:
Appeared also in his "Untergänge und Morgenröten" (1999).
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