Abstract
Manifestations of Anti-Semitism in Czechoslovak Silesia during the First Republic (1918-1938)
Highlights
Austrian Silesia at the turn of the 20th century i ¡opean society in the 19th century was broadly secularized already, but all its classes were still strongly influenced by traditional Christian teaching, reflecting Christian ( Catholic) anti-Judaism
¦¤ study discusses the manifestations of anti-Semitism on the territory of Czech Silesia during the period of the so-called First Republic (1918–1938)
In spite of predominantly minor incidents and anti-Semitic manifestations resulting most frequently from the worsened economic situation of the non-Jewish population or from national problems omnipresent in multinational Czechoslovak Silesia, local Jews were respected by the majority society during a considerable part of the interwar period
Summary
Austrian Silesia at the turn of the 20th century i ¡opean society in the 19th century was broadly secularized already, but all its classes were still strongly influenced by traditional Christian teaching, reflecting Christian ( Catholic) anti-Judaism. This attitude differed markedly from racial anti-Semitism, with its emphasis on the religious side of the problem and on non-violent manifestation. From the 1880s, especially in the western part of Austrian Silesia (so-called Opavian Silesia), Jews were the target of the sharpest propaganda from the predecessors of German National Socialism – supporters of the anti-Semitic Schönerer ideology.[3] In that respect, Opava
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