Summary
Early nineteenth-century Jewish writer who, in Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, coined “Germanomania” in his 1815 manifest Die Germanomania against German hypernationalism — the term Franz Oppenheimer thought he had invented until he discovered it in Ascher’s writing (PDF p.105).
Details
- Ascher’s manifest was an energetic refutation of the allegations and hyper-Germanness of the post-Napoleonic era, when professors such as Friedrich Rühs and Jakob Friedrich Fries argued in the language of science that Jews were biologically different and agitated for violence against them, helping prepare the ground for the Hep-Hep pogroms of 1819 (PDF p.105).
- Werner Treß’s observation, as Peretz reports it, is that the German nationalism Ascher described in 1815 was an early representation of the archetype of German nationalism that culminated in the Second World War (PDF p.106).
Related pages
Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, Franz Oppenheimer, Wissenschaft des Judentums, Hep-Hep pogroms