| German Politics and the Jews: Düsseldorf and Nuremberg, 1910-1933 Contributor(s): Kauders, Anthony (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198206313 ISBN-13: 9780198206316 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $218.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 1996 Annotation: This is a scholarly reassessment of the 'Jewish Question' in Germany (1910-1933). Anthony Kauders challenges the view that, following Hitler's rise to power, anti-Semitism radically increased among the majority of Germans. He argues that the Weimar Republic was also very influential in changing people's attitudes towards the Jews and their place in German society. Through a study of Dusseldorf and Nuremberg, two German towns of comparable size but disparate regional, religious, and economic characteristics, he explores the attitudes of journalists, politicians, clerics, and ordinary people. Using local and national archival material, Dr Kauders is able to show that, whereas before the First World War most Germans would distance themselves from racial anti-Semitism, after 1918 many Germans agreed with volkisch agitators that Jews were, in a variety of ways, alien to the national community. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | Europe - Germany - History | Jewish - General |
| Dewey: 305.892 |
| LCCN: 96012141 |
| Lexile Measure: 1710 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.95 lbs) 222 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This revisionist account challenges the view that anti-Semitism was imposed on a majority of moderate Germans following Hitler's rise to power. Anthony Kauders argues that the Weimar Republic was instrumental in changing people's attitudes towards the Jews. The author studies the common man's reaction to the Jewish Question in two towns, Dusseldorf and Nuremberg, between 1910 and 1933. |