Offenders or victims? : German Jews and the causes of modern Catholic antisemitism / Olaf Blaschke.

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...

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Main Author: Blaschke, Olaf, 1963-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, for the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ©2009.
Series:Studies in antisemitism (Unnumbered)
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Summary: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 Kulturkmpfe. 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" d.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 224 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780803226845
0803226845
1282424467
9781282424463
9786612424465
661242446X
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.