Language:
English
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Central European History
Angaben zur Quelle:
34,1 (2001) 1-30
Keywords:
Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens
;
Antisemitism
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Traces the reactions of liberal Jews in Germany, mainly through the Centralverein's periodicals "Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums" and "Im deutschen Reich", to the upsurge of antisemitism and pogroms in Eastern Europe, mainly in Poland but also in Romania, Hungary, Ukraine, etc. The CV press delivered insightful interpretations of the pogrom in Lvov in November 1918, as well as pogroms in Pinsk and other Polish cities. The violence was interpreted as a modern phenomenon of East European political life, associated with the rise of nationalism, anti-German and anti-Bolshevik moods, etc. The CV was disappointed by Poland and other new states, whose soldiers and officers perpetrated the pogroms, and by their governments' and Western powers' unwillingness to stop the violence. Despite this, German Jewish liberals remained loyal to their principles, believing that relations between the new states and the Jews would improve and that Jews should identify firmly with the countries in which they lived.
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