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 Kulturkampfe. 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.
- ISBN10 661242446X
- ISBN13 9786612424465
- Publish Date 1 December 2009 (first published 1 January 2009)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 15 June 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Nebraska Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 232
- Language English