Language:
English
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Sociological Forum
Angaben zur Quelle:
7,3 (1992) 425-446
Keywords:
Jews History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Using the theory of the marginal man developed by the Chicago School of Sociology, describes four reactions to such marginality which emerged among the German Jewry of the Wilhelmine era (1871-1914): assimilation, return, poise, and transcendence. Poise was the least appropriate type of Jewish reaction, because German society did not tolerate persons who were Germans and Jews simultaneously. The assimilation produced an antisemitic backlash. The way of return gave rise to such prominent thinkers as Hess, Rosenzweig, Buber, and Scholem; the way of transcendence begat a galaxy of German Jewish socialists.
Note:
With German Jewry of the Wilhelmine era as a test case.
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