Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Volkov, Shulamit

Titel

THE APPEAL OF THE EXTREMES

Ist Teil von

• The Rise of Popular Antimodernism in Germany: The Urban Master Artisans, 1873-1896, 2015, p.215-236

Ort / Verlag

Princeton: Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• As the antiliberal campaign gathered strength in 1874-75, anti-Semitism immediately became popular.¹ A host of newspaper articles, pamphlets, and books proclaimed the connection between the operations of Jewish capitalists and the collapse of the Vienna stock exchange, and blamed Jews and “Jew-like Germans” for the economic catastrophe.² It was at best a result of their irresponsible behavior, so ran the argument, and at worst an outcome of their sinister scheming. Attacks on liberalism during the 1870s were almost invariably accompanied by anti-Semitic pronouncements, demonstrating the continuous link between the antiliberal campaign and the development of anti-Semitism in nineteenth-century Germany. Antiliberalism