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January 22, 2025

When Germany’s Foremost Liberal Scholar Turned against the Jews

Heinrich von Treitschke’s Jewish problem.

Almost a century before Górnicki wrote his memorandum, a similar dispute was going on in a neighboring country. In The Berlin Anti-Semitism Controversy, Frederick Beiser examines attacks on Jews in highbrow German publications of the 1870s and 1880s, which paralleled more vulgar efforts to harness prejudice by pamphleteers and agitators. Allan Arkush writes in his review:

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