History 317—Lecture: German Jews or Jewish Germans?

Outline

German Jews or Jewish Germans?

- Economic position

- Social position

- Cultural position

- Political position

- Liberalism

- Zionism

Chauvinism

Brothers and Strangers: The Ostjude in German Jewish Culture

Image of the Ostjude

Impact of the migration on Germany

- welfare

- antagonism

Seeing the Other: War

- Gentile reactions

- Jewish reactions

Revolutions and the image of the Jew

Image and Reality: Role of the Ostjuden

Jewish Population in Germany, 1861-1933

Year Total Population Jews Percentage

1861 33,652,000 353,000 1.05%

1871 36,323,000 383,000 1.05%

1880 40,218,000 437,000 1.09%

1890 44,230,000 465,000 1.05%

1900 50,626,000 497,000 0.98%

1910 58,451,000 539,000 0.92%

1925 63,181,000 568,000 0.90%

1933 55,029,000 503,000 0.76%

 

Kurfürstendamm | Kaufhaus des Westens (KDW) | B'nai B'rith | "Drei-Tage-Judin" | Max Reinhardt | Fritz Lang | Ernst Toller | Franz Werfel | Arnold Schönberg | Kurt Weill | Otto Klemperer | Bruno Walter | Arnhold Zweig | Alfred Döblin | Else Lasker-Schüler | Albert Einstein | Berliner Tageblatt | Die Weltbühne | Kurt Tucholsky | Dr. Emil Levy |Thedor Herzl | "Luftmensch" | Dr. Max Naumann,