Exclusionary Violence: Antisemitic Riots in Modern German History
Exclusionary Violence: Antisemitic Riots in Modern German History
edited by Christhard Hoffmann, Werner Bergmann and Helmut Walser Smith
University of Michigan Press, 2002 Cloth: 978-0-472-09796-8 | Paper: 978-0-472-06796-1 | eISBN: 978-0-472-22426-5 (standard) Library of Congress Classification DS146.G4E93 2002 Dewey Decimal Classification 305.892404309034
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Whereas a large body of scholarly literature exists on German antisemitism in general, pre-Nazi histories of violence against Jews in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have been widely neglected. This coherent and well-focused collection of essays is the first comprehensive work in any language dealing with antisemitic pogroms in modern German history from the Hep Hep riots of 1819 to the Reichskristallnacht. In the Western mind, outbursts of collective violence against Jews have been largely identified with Tzarist Russia and the medieval crusade massacres. However, by narrating pogroms as archaic, historians have overlooked their significance to the development of modern antisemitism in Germany and Europe as well as the reasons for its continued presence in the contemporary world. The evidence presented in this volume suggests that acts of exclusionary violence were not dead-end streets of futile protest. Rather, they were rehearsals for new kinds of destruction. The integration of various perspectives and the close cooperation of scholars from different disciplines is a major achievement of this volume, which will be of interest to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, academics and the general reader in a variety of disciplines, including German studies, Jewish studies, Holocaust and genocide studies, ethnic relations, history, and the social sciences in general.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Christhard Hoffmann is Associate Professor of Modern European History, University of Bergen, Norway. Werner Bergmann is Professor of Research on Antisemitism, Technical University, Berlin, Germany. Helmut W. Smith is Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University.
REVIEWS
"The achievement of this book is to show that antisemitic violence in Germany was part of an eastern-central European pattern that defies easy explanation by reference to a general 'crisis of modernity' or 'the longest hatred'. The highly original case studies show that circumstances differed greatly in each riot, and that the recipe of violence not only possessed several ingredients, but also many variations."
—A. Dirk Moses
— A. Dirk Moses
"The epidemic use of violence to exclude a minority shows that throughout the period under review there was no consensus in Germany on equal citizenship for Jews, though the authors are careful to distinguish their concern from Goldhagen's 'eliminationist' anti-Semitism. Exclusionary Violence presents a sophisticated approach to a question that has lacked comprehensive and comparative treatment and should deepen our understanding of this particular variant of political violence."
— Central European History
"This collection of essays from prominent German and North American scholars explores the major aspects of anti-Jewish violence before the Holocaust using the concept of 'exclusionary violence.' With this term the authors move beyond a simplistic recounting of pogroms or violent outbursts against Jews in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany. They employ new theoretical models in conjunction with microhistorical studies to illuminate various characteristics of violence against Jews from the post-Napoleonic period through Kristallnacht in 1938. The result is a nuanced, thoroughly researched, important new contribution to the ongoing study of anti-Semitic violence in modern German history."
— German Studies Review
". . . a major achievement. . . ."
— H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences
"...this volume makes a significant contribution to our understanding of antisemitism in modern Germany and will certainly appeal to students of the subject."
— H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
Werner Bergmann, Christhard Hoffmann
and Helmut Walser Smith
The "Hep Hep" Riots of 1819: Anti-Jewish Ideology,
Agitation, and Violence
Stefan Rohrbacher
Anti-Jewish Emotion and Violence in the 1848 Crisis
of German Society
Manfred Gailus
Political Culture and Violence against Minorities:
The Antisemitic Riots in Pomerania and West Prussia
Christhard Hoffmann
Konitz, 1900: Ritual Murder and Antisemitic Violence
Helmut Walser Smith
"Out with the Ostjuden": The Scheunenviertel Riots in
Berlin, November 1923
David Clay Large
The November Pogrom of 1938: Participation,
Applause, Disapproval
Wolfgang Benz
Exclusionary Riots: Some Theoretical Considerations
Werner Bergmann
Continuities and Discontinuities of Anti-Jewish
Violence in Modern Germany, 1819-1938
Richard S. Levy
Contributors
Index
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![](https://www.bibliovault.org/thumbs/978-0-299-34284-5-thumb.jpg "Germans and Jews: The Right, the Left, and the Search for a "Third Force" in Pre-Nazi Germany")
