Language:
Portuguese
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Revista de Estudos Judaicos
Angaben zur Quelle:
4 (2002) 183-188
Keywords:
Antisemitism History
Abstract:
The emancipation of the Jews in Germany during the 19th century, together with the extraordinary economic development of the country after the German reunification (1871), resulted in upward mobility for the Jews, and impelled their economic, social and political integration. There was a hostile reaction of a part of German society to that phenomenon, which resorted to arguments other than the traditional anti-Jewish stereotypes which were based on the Christian religion and on medieval anti-Jewish traditions. Pseudo-intellectuals such as Gobineau, Chamberlain, Marr, Treitschke and others provided pseudo-scientific theories to prove the racial superiority of Germans who, they said, were threatened by the intrinsic, everlastingly degenerate, sick and perverted nature of the Jews. According to those theories, the assimilation and social advancement of the Jews would pose a lethal threat to German civilization; their elimination from society became the first priority. Racist antisemitism, which pursued the eradication of the Jews, had its fulfillment at the hands of the Nazis between the years 1940-45.
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