Iudaeus ex machina. Die Wiederkehr eines alten Feindbildes
Iudaeus ex machina. The Comme-Back of an old Concept of the Enemy

Summary/Abstract: The reawakening of the old demons of nationalism and anti-Semitism in Europe, especially in Central and Eastern Europe, in the three years since the fall of communism hardly surprises. After all, in this part of the world, national identity has been a problem since the failed revolutions of 1848. The forty-year reign of Communism after the Second World War had frozen the underlying conflicts and tensions rather than resolved them. This also applies to anti-Semitism, which in the inter-war period was an integral part of the struggle for Polish, Romanian, Hungarian or Slovak national identity. As soon as the iron grip of the pax sovietica had broken loose, many old wounds reopened, along and across the quest for national independence rooted in the Western Enlightenment.

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