Language:
German
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Exilforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
19 (2001) 18-40
Keywords:
Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens
;
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Jews History 1933-1939
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Germany Emigration and immigration
;
History
Abstract:
Since their founding in the 1890s, the Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens (CV) and the German Zionist organization opposed each other. The CV's aim was to foster Jewish life in Germany and to combat antisemitism by emphasizing the Jews' German patriotism; the Zionists fostered Jewish nationalism and emigration to Palestine. The Nazis exploited the differences in order to speed up Jewish emigration: they encouraged the Zionists and obstructed the activities of the CV, which at first clung to the hope that Jewish life in Germany was still possible. As Nazi persecution escalated, however, the CV also turned its efforts to emigration; it began to cooperate with the Zionists in a division of labor: while the Zionists prepared Jews, especially youth, for aliyah, the CV prepared them for emigration to other countries.
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