Language:
German
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Nordisk Judaistik
Angaben zur Quelle:
26,1-2 (2008) 49-78
Keywords:
Suttner, Bertha von,
;
Herzl, Theodor,
;
Verein zur Abwehr des Antisemitismus
;
Zionism History
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Traces the relations between Herzl and the Suttners and between the movements they respectively founded and led: Bertha von Suttner's Austrian peace movement, Arthur von Suttner and Friedrich Leitenberger's Verein zur Abwehr des Antisemitismus (Abwehrverein), and Herzl's Zionist movement. Herzl was skeptical about the effectiveness of the Abwehrverein and in 1891 resisted Leitenberger's request for contributions to its organ, the "Freie Blatt". At that time he saw the solution to antisemitism either in responding to every antisemitic insult by challenging the offender to a duel; or in mass conversion to Catholicism. The Suttners were at first ambivalent about Herzl's "Judenstaat"; Bertha, beause she strove for the abolition of all nationalisms; Arthur, because he feared the mass exodus of what he called "one of the most important springs of vitality for this old, diseased body" of Europe. But both were converted to support of the movement, seeing in it not only a solution for the misery of the persecuted, but also a hope for a model state and a cultural renewal. Bertha tried to aid Herzl through her international connections.
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