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Wilhelm Marr, the patriarch of antisemitism

Title: Wilhelm Marr, the patriarch of antisemitism / by Moshe Zimmermann.
Author: Zimmermann, Mosche.
Publication: New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.

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Description

xii, 178 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

The creation of the term "anti-Semitism" a century ago signalled a turning point in the history of Jew-hatred, marking the division between the classical, Christian hatred of Jews and the modern, politically-rooted racist attitudes. This is the first biography of radical writer and politician Wilhelm Marr, the man who introduced the term "anti-Semitism" into politics and founded the first "Anti-Semitic League." Marr (1819-1904) began his political career as a democrat and revolutionary, fighting for the emancipation of all oppressed groups including the Jews. But when he became disillusioned with contemporary politics, Jews became the focus of his attack. Drawing on Marr's published and unpublished works, as well as on previously unexamined journals and voluminous correspondence, Zimmermann sets out to discover why an intellectual radical like Marr would become a virulent anti-Semite. As Zimmermann follows Marr's profound influence in the political, literary, and artistic circles of his day and his collaborations with Karl Marx, Richard Wagner, and other radical founders of modern anti-Semitism, he reveals the diverse ways that anti-Semitism came to permeate German thought and illuminates critical moments in the emergence of the German Reich. The book also includes Marr's surprising, never-before-published "Testament of an Anti-Semite," written at the end of his life when he finally turned his back on the movement he helped to create. This is the first volume in a new Oxford series, Studies in Jewish History. The General Editor for the series is Jehuda Reinharz of Brandeis University.

Series Statement

Studies in Jewish history

Uniform Title

Ṿilhelm Mar, "ha-paṭriʼarkh shel ha-anṭishemiyut". English
Studies in Jewish history.

Alternative Title

Ṿilhelm Mar, "ha-paṭriʼarkh shel ha-anṭishemiyut".

Subject

Genre/Form

collective biographies.
Biographies.
History.

Note

Translation of: Ṿilhelm Mar, "ha-paṭriʾarkh shel ha-Anṭishemiyut."
Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

"List of Marr's works": p.173-174.
Bibliography: p. 157-171.

Contents

Prologue: Germany in the Nineteenth Century 3 -- 1. The Man and His Origins 8 -- 2. From the Commercial Academy to the Revolutionary School 14 -- 3. The Radical in the Revolution of 1848 20 -- 4. From Politics to Business and Back: 1852-1862 35 -- 5. The Mirror of the Jews 42 -- 6. The "German Mazzini," 53 -- 7. The Victory of Judaism over Germanism 70 -- 8. The "Business of Anti-Semitism" Syndrome 96 -- Epilogue: The Decline of the Term "Anti-Semitism," 112.

ISBN

0195040058
9780195040050

LCCN

86008349

OCLC

ocm13424383
13424383
SCSB-1159166

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library