For an HON 105 presentation. We've been covering Weimar Germany, and I figured that my group's assessment of Weimar society would be incomplete without a touching on the whole anti-Semitism concept.

1. JEWS in the Weimar Republic

2. Outline of Topics -A history: the Jewish-Christian relationship -Shifting 20th Century Ideologies -Separatism and Freedom

3. Christian Indoctrination Roots of Antisemitism

5. failed to recognize Jesus as the Messiah

6. were responsible for his crucifixion

7. are consequently no longer the "chosen people”

9. Archetype bleeds into popular culture

10. Ahavser: wandering Jew who mocked Jesus

11. several symbols in the public’s consciousness assume the stylized features of an Ahasver

13. Many described feeling a "completely irrational aversion”

16. the more Jews conformed, the more unrest anti-Semites felt

18. counteract increasing equality

19. strengthen anti-Semitic relationship

20. Modernization processes and emphasis on rationality caused Churches to lose power

21. Reactionary: economic setbacks, political instability, more aggressive nationalism

22. Attempts to stigmatize Jews:

24. Emphasis on Jews as a race with specific traits, rather than a religion with specific beliefs

26. Parasites, degenerate, poison, bacilli, trichinas, rats, blowflies

27. Implied Jewish “racial characteristics”

28. Live at cost of others

29. Uses flattery and submissiveness to profit

32. Ethnic solidarity

34. Most Jews lived in urban areas, few in the country

36. organization unique to central Europe

37. focal point of Jewish life-centralized local Jewish activities

38. empowered by government to organize local Jewish affairs

39. ex: hired rabbis, religious functionaries, maintained and built synagogues, etc.

40. youth movements

42. As a result, they concentrated in a small number of professions

43. Usually found in urban areas

44. Include: journalists, lawyers, doctors, or salesmen

45. Some were industrial workers, artisans or peddlers;

47. Paradigm shift to anti-Semitism