EAN: 9783515130691

GERMAN POLITICS AND THE JEWISH QUESTION 1914-19...

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.

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