Summary
The anti-Jewish pogroms of 1819, prepared, in Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, by post-Napoleonic university agitation against Jewish integration — and linked by Franz Oppenheimer’s poem “Germanomaniacs” to Nazi violence through the slogan “Deutschland erwache! Juda verrecke!” (PDF p.105-106).
Details
- Professors such as Friedrich Rühs and Jakob Friedrich Fries argued in the language of science that Jews were biologically different and justified and agitated for violence against Jews, arguably preparing the ground for the pogroms; Saul Ascher’s Die Germanomania (1815) refuted the allegations (PDF p.105).
- Oppenheimer’s translation of the slogan, “Wake up, Germany! Judah, croak”, drew a line from 1819 to the violence of the Nazis (PDF p.106).
Related pages
Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, Saul Ascher, Franz Oppenheimer, Wissenschaft des Judentums