Wilhelm Marr: The Patriarch of Anti-SemitismOxford University Press, 5 mar 1987 - 190 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 Drawing on Marr's published and unpublished works, as well as on previously unexamined journals and voluminous correspondence, Zimmermann sets out to discover why an intellectual radical like Marr would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. |
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2 From the Commercial Academy to the Revolutionary School | 14 |
3 The Radical in the Revolution of 1848 | 20 |
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5 The Mirror of the Jews | 42 |
6 The German Mazzini | 53 |
7 The Victory of Judaism over Germanism | 70 |
8 The Business of AntiSemitism Syndrome | 96 |
The Decline of the Term AntiSemitism | 112 |
Appendix | 116 |
Notes | 157 |
List of Marrs Writings | 173 |
Index | 175 |
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Strona ix - Marr is a figure standing at an important crossroad in German history: he was a prominent activist in the revolutionary movement during the restoration regime in the 1840's and a friend of the father of German socialism, Wilhelm Weitling; a known politician in the revolution of 1848 and one of Mazzini's circle, he corresponded with Bismarck and waged a personal war against the leader of the movement for Jewish emancipation, Gabriel Riesser.
Strona 118 - Jew, are as disgusted with your temple as I am with my church, then attach yourself to me, not I to you. Do not shy away from a few drops of water, when it is a matter of replacing orthodoxy by free humanism. If you are a hydrophobiac, then you are orthodox, and I have nothing in common with orthodox people. Adieu! Yours sincerely, W. Marr Within Philo-Semitism* Introduction The following writings will be released to the public, if at all, only after my death.
Strona 118 - ... synagogal state by its side. I wish you success. Don't be angry with me for being so frank. I am doing nothing against the Jews, because people learn most quickly from experience, and here with us nine-tenths of the population— and the most intelligent radicals at their head— are cursing the artificial and spurious emancipation.
Strona 72 - I at least came to know the Semitic race in a thorough manner, in its most intimate details, and I warn against the mingling of Aryan and Semitic blood.
Strona 118 - ... and spurious emancipation. But I can do even less for a tribe whose best critics are its own prophets! I and several congenial friends no longer attend the local parliament, our 'constitutional caricature,' where Abraham's descendants play the role of faithful satellites of reaction.
Strona 132 - you don't know the rules preserving the link between us Jews. None of us can break the iron ring.
Strona 22 - Marr dreamed of the coming revolution, giving first priority to the "universal European republic," while according a lesser position to the "indivisible German republic.
Strona 115 - Marr in 1879, is unsuitable, if only for the reason that there are other peoples with Semitic languages, such as the Arabs, who stand in complete opposition to the Jews.