JS-3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Antisemitism, Constitutional Monarchy, Social Darwinism

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Jewish Studies
• Course: JS-3100
• Professor: Smith Helmut

Document Summary

Eastern europe directed especially at the jews: race and attitudes towards others, eastern europe, the pale of settlement, the worlds of east european jewry. Eastern europe: dreyfus affair (1894) (western europe) Jewish captain in french army falsely accused of handing secrets over to the germans; sentenced and sent to prison. Fanned flames of anti-semitism in france (which was not free of anti-semitism to begin with largely on account of the catholic part of the government) Newspaper article ("i accuse you")--accuses the whole government class of attempting to cover a whole series of questionable army behavior by fanning anti- Christian social party--catholic party which fuses a genuine interest for the common man with anti-semitism (cultivation of prejudice: series of proposals--restriction of immigration into vienna, proposal to keep. Lueger becomes mayor of vienna (thought to be scandalous that a man so openly anti-semitic could become mayor of the largest city in austria: ritual murder cases.