Publisher's Synopsis
Adolf Stoecker (1835-1909) was a protestant court-priest and Christian-social politician. In his time he was known for his reformist political views based on Christian-conservativism as well as his anti-semitic agitation. His involvement in the debates around the so-called Jewish Question in the German Kaiserreich was marked by a decidedly Christian form of Anti-Semitism. His anti-Jewish statements were rebutted by people from diverse political, ecclesiastical and societal backgrounds including Jews and non-Jews. Between 1879 and 1900 the debates around the Jewish Question occured in three phases: an initial phase, a phase of politization, and a phase in which it became institutional. During these phases, particular conflicts exhibit various constellations of actors and topics, as well as the complex interaction between religious, social, political and economic dimensions in the relationship between German Jews and Protestants in the German Kaiserreich.
