Self-hating Jew

The concept of Jewish self-hatred is to describe an alleged behavior of individual Jewish individuals who contact after the " self-hatred " theory in the supercritical or psychologically auto-destructive way against the Jews and their own Jewishness.

Characteristics

On the one hand is made by proponents of the theory normally applied by the assumed " Jewish self- hatred" is an attempt to break out of a maligned and perceived as inferior existence; one's own identity will - not least because of hostility - negated or negative connotations. " Jewish self-hatred " is the extent a result of anti-Semitism. On the other hand, contemporary historical documents of an alleged Jewish self-hatred are often used to serve as a cause or amplifier of anti-Semitic views. After all, even put forward by Jews expressions of their " Jewish self-hatred " as both anti -Semitic due to be regarded as anti-Semitic effect.

Conceptual history

The phrases " Jewish self-hatred " and " Jewish anti-Semitism " was coined in the German - Jewish journalism at the turn of the 20th century. Influential in particular were the considerations of Theodor Lessing, who in Jewish publishing a book published in 1930 entitled The Jewish self-hatred.

Even the original conceptualization and relevant publications such as especially the vielrezipierte font Lessing came often to criticism. Recent research has evaluated the term consistently problematic - for example, in this form:

"As an explanation for the behavior of Jewish intellectuals leads, however, the term ' Jewish self-hatred ' probably more problems one, as it claims to solve. The term tends mainly to demand a normative definition of Jewish identity that is no longer at least since the Enlightenment available. "

Attributions

In his book on the topic Theodor Lessing treated the. Declared by him for exemplary Paul Ree, Otto Weininger, Arthur Trebitsch, Max Steiner, Walter Calé and Maximilian Harden

Arno Lustiger comes in a talk and Others FAZ article on the Jewish converts Pablo Christiani, Nicholas Donin and Johannes Pfefferkorn, who advocated for Jewish persecutions of the Church; Karl Kraus, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Egon Friedell, Noam Chomsky, Moshe Menuhin, Alfred Grosser and Abraham Melzer. It assumes that anti-Zionism is tantamount to anti-Semitism.