German Jews: the temptation of racism

Examines the appeal of German ideas of race, even among its Jewish populations. Argues that German Jews were drawn to the racial discourse of the late 19th and early 20th centuries as ways of conceptualizing Jewish identity and otherness. Zionists, for example were prominent among those tempted to see Jews as a race. Among Jews, however, language of race carried none of the superior- inferior classifications fundamnetal in the wider discussions of race.