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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blaschke, Olaf, 1963-

Series:

Studies in antisemitism (Unnumbered)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antisemitism--Germany--History--19th century.

Antisemitism.

Antisemitism--Germany--History--20th century.

Christianity and antisemitism--Germany--History--19th century.

Christianity and antisemitism.

Christianity and antisemitism--Germany--History--20th century.

Judaism--Relations--Catholic Church.

Judaism.

Catholics--Germany--Attitudes.

Catholics.

Jews--Germany--Attitudes.

Jews.

Antisemitism--Public opinion.

Public opinion--Germany.

Public opinion.

Germany--Ethnic relations.

Germany.

Catholic Church--Relations--Judaism.

Catholic Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, for the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, c2009.

Language Note:

English

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 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" d

Contents:

Catholic attitudes toward Jews

Challenging explanations of Catholic antisemitism

The nature of Catholic antisemitism

Antisemitism in an age of confessionalism

Jewish attitudes toward Catholics

Explaining antisemitism with regard to "Jewish offenders"

Explaining Catholic antisemitism without Jews

Jewish views of Catholic antisemitism

Emphasizing good relations between Jews and Catholics

Presenting Catholic antisemites as exceptions

Referring to antisemitism directly

Conclusion: explaining antisemitism without reference to the Jews.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-42446-7

9786612424465

0-8032-2684-5

OCLC:

609850230