Assimilated German Jews called eastern Jews un-German

Evidence

According to Max Naumann, in a tract published in the same year as Zweig’s work, Vom nationaldeutschen Juden [On the Nationalist German Jew] (1920), the Jews of the East maintained “moral views of sub-Asia [Halb-Asiens] foreign to the German spirit” and therefore posed a threat to the well-being of those views held dearest to Germans. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 415 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

As Steven Aschheim has rightly suggested, “the representation of the Ostjude was designed to give the German Jew a new and different picture of himself,” and he goes on to remark: “Of course, this celebration … tells us more about the ideological predicament and proclivities of these German Jews than it illuminates the realities of ghetto culture.” — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 415 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Assimilated Western Jews avoided Eastern Jewish refugees; Assimilated German Jews split over whether eastern Jewry threatened or redeemed German identity; German-Jewish idealization of eastern Jews reveals their own ideological plight — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 415 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• One 1920 German-Jewish faction called eastern Jews morally foreign sub-Asians #exemplifies (0.92) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 415
• German-Jewish idealization of eastern Jews reveals their own ideological plight #complicates (0.78) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 415