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Walther Rathenau
Hans F. Loeffler
其他書名
ein Europäer im Kaiserreich
出版Berlin Verlag A. Spitz, 1997
主題Biography & Autobiography / General
ISBN38706166609783870616663
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1TW3AAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Ch. 5 (pp. 143-162), "Antisemitismus und Zionismus bei Walther Rathenau", refutes the view, propagated by critics and biographers, of Rathenau as an example of Jewish self-hatred. Describes the rise of antisemitism in Wilhelmine Germany and analyzes its causes. This antisemitism caught the assimilated Jewish intellectuals unprepared, and caused many of them to seek their Jewish roots while not sacrificing their identification with Germany. Rathenau's "Hoere, Israel!" (1897) and "Staat und Judentum" (1911) must be read in this context. While he urged Jews to educate themselves to become better Germans, he accused society of rejecting the Jews, and the state of requiring baptism before admitting Jews to the higher civil service or the officer corps. He considered this material incentive for conversion repugnant and claimed that if the Jews were baptized, prejudice and hatred would simply be redirected toward the converts. He argued that the state could not afford to dispense with the services of any of its citizens, including the Jews.