Anti-semitism in Germany : the post-Nazi epoch since 1945
Werner Bergmann (Author), Rainer Erb (Author), Belinda Cooper (Translator), Allison Brown (Translator)
Based on all empirical survey data available up to now, this volume offers a thorough comparative analysis of anti-Semitism in East and West Germany, and in particular its resurgence with the rise of right-wing extremism since unification. Anti-Semitism in Germany reflects a historically unique opportunity to compare the attitudes of two population groups that shared a common history up to 1945 and then lived under differing political conditions until 1989. The authors find distinct generational patterns in the survival and development of anti-Semitic attitudes. In the Federal Republic hostility towards Jews was more manifest among those who had been socialized to it under the Weimer Republic and Third Reich but less prevalent in subsequent generations. In contrast the authors show younger East Germans as more susceptible to anti-Semitism. The economic and cultural crises of reunification underwrote the strident anti-Zionism of the former communist regime
Print Book, English, 1997
Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A., 1997
ix, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781560002703, 1560002700
35318351
Preface1. Anti-Semitism in Germany (1945–1995)2. The Berlin Study on Anti-Semitism3. The Distribution of Anti-Semitic Attitudes in West Germany4. Anti-Semitism as a Social Prejudice5. Emotional Rejection of and Social Distance from Jews6. Inclination to Discriminate and Intolerance7. Attitudes of Germans toward Israel8. Group Prejudice and Anti-Semitism9. Subjective Deprivation and Anti-Semitism10. Anti-Semitism within the Context of "Coming to Terms with Nazism"11. Latent Anti-Semitism12. Anti-Semitism in United Germany (1990–1995)Appendix 1: Problems in the Development of Anti-Semitism ScalesAppendix 2: Questionnaire with Basic CountAppendix 3: Factor AnalysesAppendix 4: AS-Stereotype IndexBibliographyIndex
Translation of: Antisemitismus in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland