Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Central European History
Angaben zur Quelle:
27,3 (1994) 267-281
Keywords:
Jews
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
The Grand Duchy of Baden was considered the most liberal of the German states in the pre-1848 period, yet most of its liberals resolutely opposed the emancipation of the Jews. The situation changed in 1846, when a dissenters' movement ("German Catholics") emerged within the Catholic community of Baden. Withdrawing from the official Church, the dissenters lost their political rights and thereby became similar in status to Jews. Conservative Catholic writers did not fail to notice this similarity; two main conservative agitators, Franz Josef Buss and Alban Stolz, attacked the Catholic dissenters, compared them to Jews, and blamed them for "Judaization" of Christianity. The liberals, who defended the Catholic dissenters in the Diet, were also forced to defend the Jews. Opposing the conservative anti-dissenter rhetoric meant opposing their anti-Jewish rhetoric as well, and the revision of the very conception of a Christian state. The emancipation of the Jews in Baden became imminent.
DOI:
10.1017/S0008938900010220
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