Offenders or Victims?: German Jews and the Causes of Modern Catholic Antisemitism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780803225220)

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 Kulturk mpfe. 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.

Author: Olaf Blaschke
ISBN-10: 0803225229
ISBN-13: 9780803225220
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2009
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.35h x 6.25w x 0.86d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 01/29/2010 pg. 16
Choice 10/01/2010