Offenders or Victims? Blaschke Olaf
Offenders or Victims? Blaschke Olaf Antisemitism is generally thought to derive from chimerical images of Jews, who became the victims of these projections. Olaf Blaschke takes up this provocative…
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Offenders or Victims? Blaschke Olaf
Antisemitism is generally thought to derive from chimerical images of Jews, who became the victims of these projections. Olaf Blaschke takes up this provocative question by considering the tensions between German Catholicism and Judaism in the period of the Kulturkampfe. 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.
Or did their antisemitism in fact derive from their perceptions of the conduct of liberal Jewish "offenders" during a period of social stress? Did Catholic resentments merely construct "their" secular Jew? 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