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Wilhelm Marr, The Victory of Judaism over Germandom (March 1879)
Wilhelm Marr (1819-1904) is most famous for coining the term “antisemitism” in the 1870s. He thereby contributed to a new vocabulary – one with which centuries-old hostility towards the Jews could....
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Court Preacher Adolf Stöcker Introduces Antisemitism to the Christian Social Workers’ Party (September 19, 1879)
Adolf Stöcker (1835-1909) was a court preacher and the leader of the antisemitic Christian Social....
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Heinrich von Treitschke Pronounces, "The Jews are Our Misfortune" (November 15, 1879)
Heinrich von Treitschke (1834-1896) was one of the most prominent historians of nineteenth-century....
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A Jewish Child’s Memories of his Family’s "Conversion" from Orthodox to Reform Practices (1880s)
The integration or assimilation of Jews into German society was not just a matter decided between Jews and non-Jews. As this excerpt from Victor Klemperer’s (1881-1960) memoirs reveals, liberal Jews....
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| 175. |
A Jewish Rabbi in a Prussian Reading Circle (1880s)
Despite the formal emancipation of Jews in the North German Confederation in July 1869, the integration....
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| 176. |
A Magdeburg Merchant Remembers a Royal Visit (1880)
After 1871, royal visits were frequently made to Germany’s diverse regions and localities in order to foster the Empire’s “inner” unification. These visits were well-suited to familiarizing non-Prussian....
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| 177. |
Antisemites’ Petition (1880-1881)
Leading German antisemites launched a petition campaign in the summer of 1880 to rally public awareness of what they identified as the “Jewish problem” and to demand legislative action. Among this....
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Categories of Rural Workers in the Late Nineteenth Century
Even in the late nineteenth century, the majority of Germans lived in towns of fewer than 2,000 inhabitants; agriculture continued to be a major employer, especially in the east. This passage, drawn....
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| 179. |
Changes in the Construction Industry (c. 1880)
Construction work underwent profound changes in the era of accelerating industrialization after 1871. This passage illustrates how the breakthrough of serial production, mechanization, and the growth....
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| 180. |
Class Divisions and School Curricula in a Small-Town Elementary School (1880s)
As this autobiographical account of school life in the mountainous Harz region of central Germany reveals, the quality of schooling and school buildings was closely tied to students’ social backgrounds:....
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