%0 Journal Article
%T The Construct Ostjuden in German Anti-Semitic Discourse of 1920–1932
%A Kliymuk, Alexander
%J Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia
%V 2018
%R 10.4467/20843925SJ.18.007.10821
%N Volume 16
%P 97-108
%K Germany, Weimar Republic, Eastern European Jews, Ostjuden, anti-Semitism, discourse analysis
%@ 1733-5760
%D 2018
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/scripta-judaica-cracoviensia/artykul/the-construct-ostjuden-in-german-anti-semitic-discourse-of-1920-1932
%X 
	The author of the following article analyses development of the construct Ostjuden in the language of German anti-Semites in 1920–1932. For this discourse analysis, two main primary sources were chosen: the daily newspaper Völkischer Beobachter and archives of parliamentary debates of the Reichstag. Immigration and the presence of Eastern European Jews in Germany after the World War I played an important role in the anti-Semitic propaganda and speeches of right-wing politicians. Within the period of the Weimar Republic, the construct Ostjuden underwent certain semantic changes. Use of the term and its connotations in the anti--Semitic discourse were examined and are presented in this article.