HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - La Libre Parole, Political Catholicism, Karl Lueger
Document Summary
Jewish emancipation & legal equality, which allows unexpected rise in prominence & success for marginalized communities which is seized upon my racial theorists) Takes on a diff. character in this modern age. Implies pseudo-scientific, social darwinist approach to the idea of jewish belonging. Want to portray jews as an ethnic group (semite is a category of heritage, not belief & religion) Jews became identified as a national other ; a group that seemed apart from the community. Prejudice against jews became diff. from what it was in the pre-modern context. First international anti-semitic congress was held in dresden, germany in 1882: jewish presence in europe was something they wanted to combat. Arose from conditions which hadn"t existed before the last third of the 19th century. Only then was it possible to organize political movements entirely/partly around supposed threat that jews represented to national success (anti-semitism)
