Parliamentary Speeches of the Din de Siecle German Political Antisemites

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  • Robert Stack

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21971/P7GW2C

Abstract

Historians have used materialist and idealist arguments to attempt to explain the nature of antisemitism in Imperial Germany. An analysis of parliamentary debates from 1887 to 1898 shows antisemitic politicians' concerns reflected those of agrarian populists in other countries, such as the United States. This argues against German particularism as an explanation for Imperial antisemitism, and further suggests that the politicians' specifically anti-Jewish aims were secondary to their Mittelstand economic interests.

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Author Biography

Robert Stack

Robert Stack is a law student at the University of Victoria. He completed his Master's in History in 1995 at the University of Saskatchewan. His interests are modern Germany, late-nineteenth century intellectual history, and antisemitism. Last year he published an article on the German antisemite Otto Bockel in the compilation Changing the Climate.

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Published

2008-02-22

How to Cite

Stack, R. (2008). Parliamentary Speeches of the Din de Siecle German Political Antisemites. Past Imperfect, 6. https://doi.org/10.21971/P7GW2C

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