Language:
English
Year of publication:
1985
Titel der Quelle:
The Jewish Response to German Culture
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1985) 212-241
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Traces the development, in the 19th-20th centuries, of the concept "Judaization" (coined by Richard Wagner) which claimed that Jews had disproportionate political, cultural, and economic power and that their influence had pervaded German society. Discusses various attitudes to this idea, which were expressed by alienated Jewish intellectuals (e.g. Heine, Marx, Weininger) who associated the term with a growing egoism and materialism in society, and by antisemites such as Wagner and Marr. Wagner called for the de-Judaization of Germany, while others called for a Christian revival or for conversion of the Jews. Secular antisemites dreamed of a regenerative German religion. During the Weimar period, the emphasis passed from attacks on the "commercial spirit" to attacks on Marxism, liberalism, and the regime itself as "judaized". The full implications of these ideas were realized by Hitler and the Nazis.
Note:
Appeared also in his "Culture and Catastrophe" (1996) 45-68.
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