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Between Heimat and Hatred - Jews and the Right in Germany, 1871-1935 (Hardcover)
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Between Heimat and Hatred - Jews and the Right in Germany, 1871-1935 (Hardcover)
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In the decades between German unification and the demise of the
Weimar Republic, German Jewry negotiated their collective and
individual identity under the impression of legal emancipation,
continued antisemitism, the emergence of Zionism and Socialism, the
First World War, and revolution and the republic. For many German
Jews liberalism and also increasingly Socialism became attractive
propositions. Yet conservative parties and political positions
right-of-center also held appeal for some German Jews. From Heimat
to Hatred studies German Jews involved in ventures that were from
the beginning, or became increasingly, of the Right. Jewish
agricultural settlement, Jews' participation in the so-called
"Defense of Germandom in the East", their place in military and
veteran circles and finally right-of-center politics form the core
of this book. These topics created a web of social activities and
political persuasions neither entirely conservative nor entirely
liberal. For those German Jews engaging with these issues, their
motivation came from sincere love of their German Heimat-a term for
home imbued with a deep sense of belonging-and from their
middle-class environment, as well as to repudiate antisemitic
stereotypes of rootlessness, intellectualism or cosmopolitanism.
This tension stands at the heart of the book. The book also asks
when did the need for self-defense start to outweigh motivations of
patriotism and class? Until when could German Jews espouse views to
the right of the political spectrum without appearing extreme to
either Jews or non-Jews? In an exploration of identity and
exclusion, Philipp Nielsen locates the moments when active Jewish
members of conservative projects became the radical other. He notes
that the decisive stage of the transformation of the German Right
occurred precisely during a period of republican stabilization,
when even mainstream right-of-center politics abandoned the
state-centric, Volk-based ethnic concepts of the Weimar republic.
The book builds on recent studies of Jews' relation to German
nationalism, the experience of German Jews away from the large
cities, and the increasing interest in Germans' obsession with
regional roots and the East. The study follows these lines of
inquiry to investigate the participation of some German Jews in
projects dedicated to originally, or increasingly, illiberal
projects. As such it shines light on an area in which Jewish
participation has thus far only been treated as an afterthought and
illuminates both Jewish and German history afresh.
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