Description
| Product ID: | 9780803225220 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Studies in Antisemitism |
| Title: | Offenders or Victims? |
| Subtitle: | German Jews and the Causes of Modern Catholic Antisemitism |
| Authors: | Author: Olaf Blaschke |
| Page Count: | 232 |
| Subjects: | Interfaith relations, Interfaith relations, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Judaism, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Judaism, Jewish studies, Germany, c 1800 to c 1900, 20th century |
| Description: | Some scholars 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of Nebraska Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of Nebraska Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2009-12-01 |