German politics and the 'Jewish Question', 1914-1919 / Lucia J. Linares.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Linares, Lucia J., author.

Series:

Weimarer Schriften zur Republik ; Bd.15.

Weimarer Schriften zur Republik ; Band 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Germany--History--1800-1933.

Jews.

Germany.

History.

Germany--Politics and government--1871-1933.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

233 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, [2021]

Summary:

"Lucia J. Linares offers the first sustained examination of the ways in which questions about German-Jewish citizenship and religious, national identity - namely the "Jewish Question" - shaped the politics of Imperial Germany in its final years, influencing the processes of parliamentarisation and democratisation. The "Jewish Question" still tends to be interpreted with hindsight, that is, in the context of the Holocaust and from a social or cultural historical perspective. While considering the short- and long-term effects the "Jewish Question" had on the rise of German antisemitism, this new study stresses its contingency and ambivalence. Jewish questions, this book argues, revealed the paradoxes of German state-building and the difficulties of breaking down older forms of corporate identity for the sake of national-cultural homogeneity. Linares presents a new interpretation of the role that the "problem" of German Jewry played in the political debates and decisions that paved the way for the Weimar Republic."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

A genealogy of the Jewish Question

The Jewish Question in war time : Germany's eastern policy, 1914-1916

Constitutionalism and secularism in the Jewish census of 1916

'Article 113 leads into the deepest questions of the concept of nationality' : minority rights in the Weimar constitution

'Tagesordnung : Judenfrage': a German (Jewish) united front at Paris.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-233).

ISBN:

9783515130691

3515130691

OCLC:

1266651973

Publisher Number:

9783515130691

Bestellnummer: 400013069