Political antisemitism in Germany and Austria, 1848-1914

Jew hatred was millennia old before the modern forms, terminology, and methods of political antisemitism emerged in German-speaking Europe. Treischke alluded to the large numbers and the threat that such concentrations of Jews posed to a young nation. Sizable though the concentration was in central Europe, mere numbers cannot account for the appearance of antisemitism there. It was the quality rather than their quantity. Lindeman has linked the genesis of antisemitism to what he called "rise of the Jews"