Language:
German
Year of publication:
1988
Titel der Quelle:
Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für Deutsche Geschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
17 (1988) 145-168
Keywords:
Jews History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Asserts that the Jews of the Weimar Republic largely ignored the many signs that should have alerted them to the insecurity of their lives in Germany. Even in the crisis years before 1925, they tended to attribute such incidents as the countrywide anti-Jewish riots of 1923 to the generally chaotic conditions in the Republic. The Centralverein continued to combat antisemitism, but without a feeling of crisis. Other Jewish organizations and political movements - the German nationalists, the Orthodox, the Zionists - saw no need to take action against antisemitism, each for its own reasons; only the youth groups were more clear-sighted. Jewish left-wing intellectuals sensed the threats to the Republic but not specifically to the Jews; however, they themselves became targets for antisemitism. The rapid ascent of the Nazis after 1929 did not meet with effective Jewish resistance because of internal divisions and a mistaken analysis of the situation.
Note:
Appeared also in his "Deutschlands Stiefkinder", 1997.
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