Language:
Danish
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Nordisk Judaistik
Angaben zur Quelle:
22,2 (2001) 157-192
Keywords:
Antisemitism
;
Jews History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Discusses recent research on antisemitism and the applicability of this research to a critical investigation of the relations between Jews and non-Jews in 19th-20th-century Denmark, a topic which has been neglected until recently. The reevaluation of the continuing impact of religious anti-Judaism on "modern" forms of antisemitism, and a new appreciation of the cultural dimensions of anti-Jewish stereotyping, have been instrumental in a new understanding of antisemitism in Denmark. The new generation of research calls for a rewriting of Danish history: the liberal democratic political culture that informed the formation of the Danish state did not do without exclusionist practices; on the contrary, it rejected cultural or ethnic heterogeneity. Instead of earlier historiography which exonerated Danish antisemitism through self-serving comparisons (e.g. the heroic rescue of the Jews in World War II), the new historiography promises new insights into the development of Danish national identity, which vascillated between inclusion and exclusion.
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