HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Jewish Assimilation, German Nationalism, Antisemitism
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19:11: why modern, jews in nineteenth-century germany, jews in the anti-semitic imagination, fin-de-siecle vienna, russia: pale of permanent jewish settlement, the dreyfus affair, zionism. Unexpected rise to prominence and success for marginalized communities. Allowed for the jewish people to go to university and make the more successful than in the past. Something that comes out of the 19th century. Modern anti-semitism isn"t concerned with the jewish religion. The jewish become a national other , they are an alien people. It became something different than it was before. Transformations of modernity gave rise to a new organized ideology of anti- Arose from conditions which hadn"t existed before the last third of the nineteenth century. Only then was it possible to organised political movements entirely or partly around anti-semitism. Only the could anti-semitism become part of a coherent set of ideas, or way of understanding the world. In 1880"s jews in germany were the most assimilated jew community at this time.
