Antisemitism

Hermann Bahr (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2025
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-5839-0 (ISBN)

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Originally published in 1894, Antisemitism features a series of interviews with prominent figures across Europe, revealing attitudes towards anti-Jewish hatred during a pivotal moment in its pre-Nazi development.

In March 1893, Austrian writer Hermann Bahr embarked on one of the most ambitious journalistic projects of the nineteenth century: a six-month series of interviews with public figures across Europe. This collection captures a wide range of opinions on antisemitism amid a surge of anti-Jewish sentiment in Germany and France during a time marked by militant nationalism and pseudoscientific “race studies.”
Originally published in 1894 and now available in English for the first time, Antisemitism serves as both a vital historical study and a rich literary account of its era. Bahr’s interviewees include German socialist leader August Bebel, France’s first female journalist Séverine, and dramatist Henrik Ibsen. Considering issues like migration, assimilation, and exceptionalism, the respondents present a spectrum of views, from impassioned pluralism to overt bigotry, with some suggesting that ignoring antisemitism might make it disappear. Antisemitism reveals the ideological, political, and social factors that contributed to the Holocaust, while uncovering the enduring mechanisms of hatred and division that continue to target minorities. Featuring extensive notes, an informative afterword, and biographies of the interviewees, this volume explores the rise of modern antisemitism and provides valuable insights into conspiracy theories that persist to this day.

Hermann Bahr (1863–1934) was an Austrian writer, playwright, director, and critic. James J. Conway is a Berlin-based writer and translator from German to English.

Translator’s Note
Interviewees
Antisemitism
Author’s Introduction

Friedrich Spielhagen
Theodor Barth
August Bebel
Theodor Mommsen
Gustav Schmoller
Pastor J. Schmeidler
Maximilian Harden
Moritz von Egidy
Ernst Haeckel
Adolph Wagner
Prince Heinrich zu Schoenaich-Carolath
Heinrich Rickert
John Henry Mackay
Wilhelm Foerster
Alfred Naquet
Jules Simon
Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu
Alphonse Daudet
Francis Magnard
Arthur Meyer
Édouard Pailleron
Séverine
Charles Morice
Gustave Paul Cluseret
Alejandro Sawa
Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla
Henri Rochefort
Sir Charles Dilke
Arthur Balfour
Henry Labouchère
Annie Besant
Sidney Whitman
Tim Healy
Paul Janson
Edmond Picard
Charles Buls
Henrik Ibsen
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Author’s Conclusion
Afterword

Notes
Further Reading

Erscheinungsdatum	03.06.2025
Übersetzer	James Conway
Zusatzinfo	12 illustrations
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	290 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4875-5839-2 / 1487558392
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-5839-0 / 9781487558390
Zustand	Neuware