Between 'Deutschtum' and 'Judentum' : ideological controversies within the the 'centralverein'

In legal terms the period of the Weimar Republic is considered the heydey of Jewish emancipation in Germany, but the political antisocial reality was quite different. During the first, turbulent years of the Republic, antisemitism reached a new peak in political and public life. It was disseminated in an unprecedented flood of popular pamphlets, novels and pseudoscientific racist publications, and erupted in violent outbreaks on the streets. Economic and political upheaval caused the rise of the Nazi party and its neoconservative satellites and the so-called Jewish question became a major political topic