The Socialist Response to Antisemitism in Imperial Germany

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What set antisemites apart from anti-antisemites in Imperial Germany was not so much what they thought about ‘, the Jews’, , but what they thought should be done about them. Like most anti-antisemites, German Social Democrats felt that the antisemites had a point but took matters too far. In fact, Socialist anti-antisemitism often did not hinge on the antisemites’, anti-Jewish orientation at all. Even when it did, the Socialists’, arguments generally did more to consolidate than subvert generally accepted notions regarding ‘, the Jews’, . By focusing on a broader set of perceptions accepted by both antisemites and anti-antisemites and drawing a variety of new sources into the debate, this study offers a startling reinterpretation of seemingly well-rehearsed issues, including the influence of Karl Marx’, s Zur Judenfrage, and the positions of various leading Social Democrats (Franz Mehring, Eduard Bernstein, August Bebel, Wilhelm Liebknecht, Karl Kautsky, Rosa Luxemburg) and their peers.