Language:
German
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Kirche und Israel; Neukirchener theologische Zeitschrift
Angaben zur Quelle:
4,1 (1989) 14-30
Keywords:
Protestant churches
;
Protestant churches Relations
;
Judaism
;
Judaism Relations
;
Protestant churches
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism 1800-2000
;
History
;
Jews History 18th century
;
Jews History 1800-1933
;
Jews History 1933-1945
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism History 1933-1945
Abstract:
A lecture delivered at the Evangelische Kirchentag in East Berlin, June 1987. Traces German Protestants' rejection of Jews, and Jewish group identity, from the time of Moses Mendelssohn to 1945. In the 19th century, conservative Protestants wanted to exclude Jews from Christian society, while liberal Protestants demanded that they assimilate. Describes the antisemitic activities of Treitschke and Stöcker and the antisemitic petition of 1881. This wave of antisemitism was opposed by other Berlin professors, especially Mommsen, and by individual Protestant clergymen and theologians, but the governing bodies of the Church remained neutral. Discusses the antisemitic propaganda accompanying the census of Jewish soldiers in the First World War. Efforts of Jewish thinkers, such as Hermann Cohen and Franz Rosenzweig, to enter into dialogue with Christians met with almost no response. Finally, neither in the 1934 Barmen Declaration of the Confessing Church nor in the "declaration of guilt" issued by the Protestant Churches at Stuttgart in 1945, is there any specific mention of Nazi persecution of Jews.
Note:
In Hebrew:
,
"גשר; כתב-עת לעניינים יהודיים" 123 (תשנא) 50-63
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