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Under the general title of : "The national-German Jew in the German environment", this is a special edition with the title "Vom mosaichen un nichtmosaichen Juden" of the Mosaic and non-Mosaic Jew. A pamphlet which discusses the Jew's place within German society. The series had other titles as well. The others include: Vom nationaldeutschen Juden., Ganz-deutsche oder halb-deutsche? and Von Zionisten und Jüdischnationalen.
In 1920, a Jewish “self-discipline committee” was formed, urging Jews to behave well especially in public. From that year on, a prominent Jewish lawyer, Dr. Max Naumann, criticized the main community organization, the Centralverein, for discouraging Jews from supporting right-leaning political parties like the People’s Party and from thinking of themselves as patriotic Germans. Naumann founded a newspaper that argued that the career of a single left-wing, anti-patriotic Jew can “breed millions of anti-Semites.” In 1921 he organized the League of German Nationalist Jews.
Max Naumann was chairman of the right-wing League of National German Jews, which called for eliminating Jewish identity. The League supported a Nazi-led national revolution, which was to realize the "rebirth of Germandom". His group was dissolved by the Gestapo. Naumann was imprisoned and later released. He died in 1939. |
