• DOI:10.1007/BF01668991
• Corpus ID: 162391831

Adolf Stoecker: Anti-Semite with a Christian mission

@article{Telman1995AdolfSA,
  title={Adolf Stoecker: Anti-Semite with a Christian mission},
  author={D. A. Jeremy Telman},
  journal={H{\^i}st{\^o}ry¯a y{\^e}h{\^u}d{\^i}t = Jewish history},
  year={1995},
  volume={9},
  pages={93-112}
}

• D. A. J. Telman
• Published 1 September 1995
• History
• Hîstôry¯a yêhûdît = Jewish history

All histories of German anti-Semitism stand in the shadow of an unavoidable telos: Hitler and the Nazi Holocaust. One cannot treat individual leaders of the German anti-Semitic movement without considering their influence (or lack thereof) on the Nazi movement. Historians study nineteenth-century German anti-Semitism with an eye to its similarities to and differences from the anti Semitism of the Third Reich. Historians of anti-Semitism thus treat the German anti-Semitic movement as developmental: the German anti-Semitic movement is said to have evolved from cultural or Christian Judeophobia to cultural anti Semitism and finally to racial, "v?lkisch" anti-Semitism. Since the church leader and politician, Adolf Stoecker, repeatedly denounced racial anti-Semites and always preached anti-Semitism in the context of a more general call for the revival of German Christianity, historians have generally considered Stoecker's anti-Semitism to have been non-racist and relatively benign.