JUDAIC 386 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Mein Kampf, Wilhelm Marr, Antisemitism
18 Sep 2016
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Definition: prejudice against or hatred of jews. The holocaust is the most extreme example of antisemitism because of the mass scale persecutions that occurred in the 20th century against the jewish population. In 1879, wilhelm marr created the term antisemitism that contained the hatred of. Jews but included the hatred of other groups like various liberal, cosmopolitan, and international trends that were associated with jews like: attacking equal civil rights, constitutional democracy, free trade, socialism, finance capitalism, pacifism. In the modern era, anti-semite"s added a political appeal to the hatred of jews by forming political parties and helped support theories of international jewish conspiracies. Also, people believed strongly in nationalism and would denounce. Jews as being good citizens and accused the jewish spirit as alien to. The nazi party was formed in 1919 where adolf hitler became the leader and gave political expression to theories of racism against groups like: jews, homosexuals, gypsies (romas, mentally disabled.
