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The Jewish ethic and the spirit of socialism

Author: Adam M Weisberger
Publisher: New York : Peter Lang, 1997.
Series: Studies in German Jewish history, vol. 1.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The Jewish Ethic and the Spirit of Socialism is an investigation into the appeal of socialist politics to alienated bourgeois German Jews during the Wilhelmine period, 1871-1918. Its central argument is that two conditions attracted German Jews to socialism: a structural marginality resulting from resurgent German anti-Semitism, and secular Jewish messianism.
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Genre/Form: Biography
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Weisberger, Adam M., 1960-
Jewish ethic and the spirit of socialism.
New York : Peter Lang, 1997
(OCoLC)645843930
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Adam M Weisberger
ISBN: 082043356X 9780820433561
OCLC Number: 34514049
Description: xiii, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Ch. 1. Setting the Stage: Marginality and the Contradictions of Emancipation --
Ch. 2. Socialism and the Jews of Wilhelmine Germany --
Ch. 3. Secular Jewish Messianism and German Socialism --
Ch. 4. Three Profiles --
Ch. 5. Conclusion.
Series Title: Studies in German Jewish history, vol. 1.
Responsibility: Adam M. Weisberger.

Abstract:

The Jewish Ethic and the Spirit of Socialism is an investigation into the appeal of socialist politics to alienated bourgeois German Jews during the Wilhelmine period, 1871-1918. Its central argument is that two conditions attracted German Jews to socialism: a structural marginality resulting from resurgent German anti-Semitism, and secular Jewish messianism.

In the course of their assimilation into German society, many Jews became estranged from Judaism, but still confronted anti-Semitism as a barrier to their complete acceptance by Gentiles. In addition, the messianic impulse, secularized out of its origins in Judaism proper, entered into the constitution of socialist ideology and resonated to Jews with special ardor.

For many in the stratum of alienated, middle-class Jews, socialism appeared to offer a resolution to the dilemmas of their ambiguous position and to leave behind both Judaism and Christianity in the wake of a history transcended.

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