»Die angesteckten Juden«. Constantin Brunners Antizionismus

Aschkenas ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 455-474
Author(s):  
Hans-Joachim Hahn
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
German Jewish ◽  
Anti Jewish ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Critical Reflections

Abstract The article analyses Brunner’s attitude towards Zionism from the time when he conceived »Der Judenhass und die Juden«, focussing on his writings on Antisemitism and on questions of German-Jewish belonging. There is something remarkable about the historical moment when Brunner engaged with the question of Antisemitism. Whereas the rise of Antisemitism in the 1870 s prompted a number of Jewish public reactions and analyses, there was a visible decline in their number after the turn of the century. On the other hand, it was by no means extraordinary that Brunner connected his critical reflections on anti-Jewish sentiments with a negative attitude towards Zionism. The radicalism of his position becomes evident, however, in the fact that he treated both the hatred of Jews and Zionism as just two aspects of the same tragedy. While after 1912 his explicit anti-Zionism was, to a certain degree, shared by many members of the »Centralverein«, his position with respect to nation and nationhood tended towards the more radical views of Max Naumann, who associated Jewish identity with German nationalism.

Refiguring the Language of Race

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja Garloff
Keyword(s):  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Love Stories ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Orientations ◽  
Final Verdict ◽  
German Jewish ◽  
The One

This chapter jumps to the turn of the century, when the rise of racial antisemitism fostered a new Jewish self-awareness and rendered “interracial” love and marriage central to the public debates about German Jewish identity. It analyzes three German Jewish writers of different and paradigmatic political orientations, who used love stories to diagnose the reasons for the faltering of emancipation: the assimilationist Ludwig Jacobowski, the Zionist Max Nordau, and the mainstream liberal Georg Hermann. Their works, including Jacobowski's Werther the Jew (1892), Nordau's Doctor Kohn (1899), and Hermann's Jettchen Gebert (1906), show how love stories potentially escape the ideological constraints of increasingly racialized models of identity. On the one hand, the love plot affords an opportunity to expose the obstacles encountered by Jews seeking integration in times of rising antisemitism. On the other hand, the open endings of most love stories and the ambiguous use of racial language allow the authors to eschew a final verdict on the success or failure of integration. The chapter argues that the love plot generates a host of equivocations between the social and the biological, and the particular and the universal, creating a metaphorical surplus that opens up venues to rethink the project of Jewish emancipation and assimilation.

»Eines Tages aber wird ein Wunder geschehen«

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Berning
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Abuse ◽  
Memory Loss ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Alfred Döblin ◽  
Short Narrative

AbstractAlfred Döblin wrote his early story Astralia while he prepared his medical dissertation about the Korsakoff’s psychosis in Freiburg 1904. The short narrative about a small man, a private scholar, who sees himself as a visionary and medium, whereas other people regard him as an insane or drunk person, can be read as a pre-exercise of the popular novella Die Ermordung einer Butterblume. The story combines two virulent discourses of the turn of the century: then current research about the neurological and psychiatric consequences of alcohol abuse like memory loss (and the neurological as well as poetological question, how memory and creativity works) - and on the other hand the ideas and practice of occultism and spiritualism. These two concurring discourses find their synthesis in this sarcastic as well as empathic pre-expressionistic story.

AXIOLOGICAL FEATURES OF THE TRANSFORMATION CONCEPT IN THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-67
Author(s):  
H. O. Zvonko
Keyword(s):  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Peripheral Zone ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Expression ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Research Show ◽  
Positive Evaluation

The axiological features of the TRANSFORMATION concept are identified and analyzed in the article. The identification of these features was based on contextual analysis. Axiological features are elements of meaning that represent the positive / negative attitude of the speaker to the conceptualized phenomenon as a whole or to its separate conceptual features, such as 1) immoral – moral, pretended – real; 2) backward – progressive, irrelevant – relevant, unpopular – popular; 3) evil – kind, aggressive – peaceful, dangerous – safe; 4) disharmonious – harmonious; 5) nasty – pleasant, hated – beloved; 6) traditional – innovative; 7) sick – healthy. The results of the research show that conceptual features with a positive evaluation usually do not have certain means of linguistic expression, most often their implementation is carried out in context. Semantic concordance of the nominates of the TRANSFORMATION concept with the words bad, evil, harmful, unattractive, aggressive, sick, disharmonious, etc. can be the means of expressing the speaker’s negative attitude to the described phenomenon of transformation. The obtained results indicate the predominance of a negative evaluation over a positive one. Features that express a negative evaluation are more diverse. They are presented in the denotative meaning of a number of lexical units, which indicates their importance in the objectification of the TRANSFORMATION concept. On the other hand, a positive evaluation of the described facts and phenomena is not always recorded. Axiological features of the concept belong to the peripheral zone of the field, or the interpretive field of the concept.

Weder Höhepunkt der Geschichte noch Schrei ins Leere. Grundriß der deutsch-jüdischen Symbiose

2005 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-149
Author(s):  
Manfred Voigts
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discussion ◽  
The Other ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Unification ◽  
German Jewish ◽  
The One

AbstractThis essay attempts to explain the German-Jewish symbiosis by examining the history of the German 'Bildungsbürgertum' and the peculiarity of the German Geistesgeschichte', which was shaped by the delay in national unification. On the one hand, the lack of political competence in German intellectual life conformed to Jewish peculiarities; on the other hand, it failed to engage in a critical discussion and rejection of anti-Judaic tendencies.

Lazy Labor, Modernization, and Coloniality

Transfers ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Moreno Tejada
Keyword(s):  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Spatial Practice ◽  
The Andes ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Everyday Resistance ◽  
The One

This article examines two distinct yet overlapping cultures of mobility in turn-of-the-century Ecuador. On the one hand, there was a modernizing culture that sought to implement utopian modes of transportation between the Andes and the Amazon. On the other hand, there were indigenous porters and pilots, who had nonhegemonic ideas about mobility and labor. This article argues that (1) indigenous labor was based on the performance of colonial habits, which I refer to as coloniality; (2) within this framework of spatial practice, native bodily rhythms could be interpreted as successful tactics of everyday resistance; and (3) the conflict between Indians and non-Indians reveals a universal, modern tension between machine and humanlike mobilities.

,,Fußnoten zur Familie“ Zur Performativität des Traumas der Shoah in den deutschjüdischen Familienromanen ,,So sind wir“ (Gila Lustiger) und ,,Familienleben“ (Viola Roggenkamp)

2012 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-151
Keyword(s):  
Family Systems ◽  
The Other ◽  
Jewish Family ◽  
Literary Scholarship ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Family ◽  
Kinship Relations ◽  
German Jewish ◽  
Psychosocial Processes ◽  
The One

AbstractLiterary scholarship has thus far ignored the discontinuities of German-Jewish family novels and is therefore running the risk of contributing to a depoliticized reading on the one hand and to the ontologization of family and kinship on the other hand. Using the narratological method, the readings of the novels So sind wir by Gila Lustiger and Familienleben by Viola Roggenkamp focus on the traumatic effects of daily communication as well as the psychosocial processes within family systems. In this way, the incongruent shifts within the narratives of the family novels are brought into focus, thereby becoming readable as semiotic indicators of catachrestic (re-)significations of the kinship relations themselves, which are portrayed as natural.

scholarly journals Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish as Determinants of Identity: As Illustrated in the Jewish Press of the First Half of the Twentieth Century

2016 ◽  
pp. 79-103
Author(s):  
Izabela Olszewska ◽  
Aleksandra Twardowska
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
Jewish Diaspora ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish as Determinants of Identity: As Illustrated in the Jewish Press of the First Half of the Twentieth CenturyThe paper shows an image and functions of Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish languages among Jewish Diaspora groups – the Balkan Sephardim and the Ashkenazim (the Ostjuden group) – in the period from the beginning of the twentieth century until the outbreak of World War II. The study is based on the articles from Jewish weeklies, magazines and newspapers from pre-war Bosnia and Hercegovina and from Germany/Poland. It demonstrates a double-sided attitude towards the languages. On the one hand – an image of the languages as determinants of Jewish identity. Touching on this theme, the authors of the paper also try to highlight the images of Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish and as determinants in a narrower sense – of the Sephardi/Ashkenazi identity in that period. On the other hand, the paper shows a tendency to treat the languages as “corrupted” and “dying” languages, and as factors slowing down the assimilation of Jewish groups and also as an obstacle for Zionist ideologies. Języki jidysz i żydowsko-hiszpański jako wskaźniki tożsamości – na przykładzie żydowskich tekstów prasowych pierwszej połowy XX wiekuArtykuł ukazuje obraz i funkcje języków jidysz i żydowsko-hiszpańskiego wśród żydowskich grup diasporowych – bałkańskich Sefardyjczyków oraz Aszkenazyjczyków (Ostjuden) – w okresie od początków wieku XX do wybuchu II wojny światowej. Opis oparty jest na artykułach z żydowskich magazynów, tygodników, prasy codziennej z przedwojennej Bośni i Hercegowiny oraz Niemiec/Polski. Ukazany jest ambiwalentny stosunek wobec języków. Z jednej strony – obraz języków jako wskaźników żydowskiej tożsamości, jak również obraz jidysz i żydowsko-hiszpańskiego jako wskaźników tożsamości w węższym ujęciu: tożsamości sefardyjskiej/aszkenazyjskiej w omawianym okresie. Z drugiej strony zaś – artykuł zwraca uwagę także na to, że oba języki były traktowane jako „zepsute”, „umierające” i stanowiące czynniki spowalniające asymilację grup żydowskich oraz przeszkodę dla idei syjonistycznych.

Austria

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinna Peniston-Bird
Keyword(s):  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nazi Party ◽  
Party Leadership ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
First Republic ◽  
New Republic ◽  
Corporate State

In the twenty-year lifespan of the First Republic, there were three contenders for the label of fascist: the Austrian Nazi Party, the Heimwehr, and the Corporate State. In Austria, one is not comparing like with like, however: the Heimwehr and the Austrian Nazis constituted movements that existed from the outset of the new republic, the Nazis with origins reaching back to the turn of the century. The Corporate State, on the other hand, was a short-lived regime that incorporated and reacted to (and against) these movements. One can best compare the opening phases of fascism in the case of the Heimwehr and the Nazis: the Heimwehr only accrued partial power, and was ultimately incorporated into the Corporate State, and the ultimate Nazi victory in 1938 was ambiguous given that it was under German party leadership.

Aspects de l'abandon de la pratique religieuse en milieu juif français

1971 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 413-425
Author(s):  
Doris Bensimon
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Intermediate Group ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
And Behavior

Some 550,000 Jews live in France ; it is the largest group in Europe. Before 1939 the most religiously orientated Jews were mainly immigrants from Eastern Europe. They were the most numerous amongst the victims of the Nazis. This inquiry was semi-directive and preliminary to further research ; it was conducted on a sample of 65 adults, 11 % of whom practised their faith regularly and 38 % were non- believers. Some amongst the practising group wished to emigrate to Israel because of the difficulty of observing weekly their traditional religious practices. The feast of the Passover, on the other hand, was observed to some extent by the non- practising Jews, and behavior amongst the intermediate group was very varied. In her conclusions, the author demonstrates the difficulty of maintaining Jewish religious practices in the diaspora and in a secularized society. Abandonment of religious practice, however, does not indicate in any way the loss of Jewish identity.

PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATIONS

2003 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maarten J. Verkerk ◽  
Arthur Zijlstra
Keyword(s):  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Management Techniques ◽  
Technological Means ◽  
The One

Around the turn of the century the American engineer Frederick Taylor (1856-1917) introduced scientific methods in manufacturing to improve the efficiency. The objective was to control labour by means of rational methods, technological means, and management techniques. Taylor has been at the centre of bitter controversies. On the one hand, his principles were warmly welcomed by industries and universities. On the other hand, they were strongly opposed by unions and politics. Despite the strong opposition, the ideas of Taylor spread quickly.

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