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The Ambiguity of Masaryk’s Attitudes on the ‘Jewish Question’

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T. G. Masaryk (1850–1937)

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I need hardly emphasise that Masaryk played a unique role in the development of the ‘Jewish Question’ not only in his own country, but also in central Europe as a whole. His involvement in the infamous Hilsner ritual murder trial (which has been covered in Steven Beller’s chapter), while making him a virtual outcast amongst his fellow countrymen,1 brought Masaryk the respect and admiration of Jews and liberal democrats in Europe and the United States.

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  1. see: F. Červinka, ‘The Hilsner Affair’, Yearbook of the Leo Baeck Institute, XIII (1968);

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  2. J. Herben, ‘Masaryk and Anti-Semitism’, in E. Rychnorsky (ed.), Masaryk and the Jews (New York, 1945) pp. 3–24.

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  9. For details see: Barbara Suchy, ‘The Verein zur Abwehr des Antisemitismus, I’, Yearbook of the Leo Baeck Institute, XXVIII (1983), pp. 223ff.

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  10. See T. G. Masaryk, ‘Náš pan Fuechsel’, Besedy Času, 24 Sept. 1914.

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  11. For an analysis of Masaryk’s nationalist philosophy see Roman Szorpluk, The Political Thought of Thomas Garrigue Masaryk (New York, 1981) pp. 80ff.

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  12. P. J. Šafařík, Slovanský národopis, 3rd ed. (Prague, 1849) p. 2.

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  13. T. G. Masaryk, Karel Havlíček. Snahy a tužby politického probuzení (Prague, 1896) pp. 419–25.

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  1. Michael A. Riff
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  1. School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, UK

    Robert B. Pynsent (Reader in Czech and Slovak Literature) (Reader in Czech and Slovak Literature)

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Riff, M.A. (1989). The Ambiguity of Masaryk’s Attitudes on the ‘Jewish Question’. In: Pynsent, R.B. (eds) T. G. Masaryk (1850–1937). Studies in Russia and East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20366-6_6

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