TY - JOUR A1 - Wyrwa, Ulrich T1 - The empire in 1871 - 1914 Y1 - 2006 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wyrwa, Ulrich T1 - The roots of evil : the foundation years of anti-semitism : from the time of Bismarck to Hitler Y1 - 2004 SN - 0044-2828 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wyrwa, Ulrich T1 - Narratives of Jewish Historiography in Europe Y1 - 2008 SN - 978-0-230-50006-8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wyrwa, Ulrich T1 - The Language of Anti-Semitism in the Catholic Newspapers II Veneto Cattolico/La Difesa in Late Nineteenth-Century Venice JF - Church history and religious culture N2 - The dispute between social versus religious interpretations of anti-Semitism pervaded the whole history of scholarly research. Whereas socio-historical interpretations had underlined the social aspects, current studies on anti-Semitism focus on religious motifs. The thesis that anti-Semitism was a result of a religious conflict, however, is far more alleged than substantially proved by the sources. So it seems necessary to go back to the sources. Therefore this paper analyzes the language of the Venetian Catholic newspaper Il Veneto Cattolico/La Difesa from the foundation of the newspaper in 1867 up to the First World War. Just a few years before the term anti-Semitism was coined, Catholic journalists of Venice had created the new semantic of secular anti-Semitism. They turned back to religious issues when they tried to systematize their anti-Jewish sentiments. Thus one can observe in the coverage of the Venetian Catholic journals the invention of an anti-Semitic tradition. KW - anti-Semitism KW - anti-Judaism KW - Venice KW - Catholic Church KW - nineteenth century Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/18712428-09603002 SN - 1871-241X SN - 1871-2428 VL - 96 SP - 346 EP - 369 PB - Brill CY - Leiden ER -