Offenders or Victims German Jews and the Causes of by Olaf Blaschke HARDBACK

University of Nebraska Press

Offenders or Victims?German Jews and the Causes of Modern Catholic Antisemitism\nAuthor(s): Olaf Blaschke\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9780803225220, 978-0803225220\nSynopsis\nAntisemitism 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 Kulturkmpfe. 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.