Main Offenders or Victims? : German Jews and the Causes of Modern Catholic Antisemitism
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Offenders or Victims? : German Jews and the Causes of Modern Catholic Antisemitism

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Antisemitism is generally thought to derive from chimerical images of Jews, who became the victims of these projections. Some scholars, however, allege that the Jews’ own conduct was the main cause of the hatred directed toward them in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Olaf Blaschke takes up this provocative question by considering the tensions between German Catholicism and Judaism in the period of the Kulturkämpfe. Did Catholic resentments merely construct “their” secular Jew? Or did their antisemitism in fact derive from their perceptions of the conduct of liberal Jewish “offenders” during a period of social stress? Blaschke’s deeper look at this crucial period of German history, particularly as revealed in the Catholic and Jewish presses, provides new and sometimes surprising insights.
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Year:
2009
Edition:
1
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press
Language:
English
Pages:
233
ISBN 13:
9780803225220
ISBN:
9780803226845,9780803225220
Series:
Studies in Antisemitism

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