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Encounters with Anti-Semitism |
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Alfred Hirschberg, co-founder of Central-Verein
Photo, 1913 |
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Alfred Hirschberg (1901-1971) was a co-founder as well as board member of the Central Association. In the 1920s, he was in charge of the CV Youth Department and, from 1933-1938, editor-in-chief of the Association's journal, the C.V Zeitung. During the Nazi era he was also active in the Reichsvertretung. He emigrated first to Great Britain in 1939 and to Brazil in 1940.
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Julius Brodnitz
Photograph, 1920's |
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Central-Verein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens [Central Union of German Citizens of Jewish Faith], abbreviated, C.V., was founded in Berlin in 1893, to safeguard Jewish civil rights against German anti-Semitism. The Central-Verein championed German-Jewish "symbiosis" and was vehemently opposed against Zionism, intermarriage and baptism. In 1927 the Central-Verein had 70,000 members and was supported by most German Jews. After the Nazi takeover in 1933, C.- V. provided legal counsel to German Jews and advised on economic issues. Among its projects were the Philo Publishing House, publishing a Jewish encyclopedia (Philo Lexikon) as well as several learned and political journals, such as Zeitschrift für die Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland [Journal for the History of Jews in Germany] and Der Morgen [The Morning]. The organization was closed down by the Gestapo immediately after Kristallnacht and was merged into the Reichsvertretung. |
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Julius Brodnitz (1866-1936) was a native of Berlin and a jurist by training. He joined the board of the Central-Verein in 1900, and subsequently chaired its legal committee. From 1920-1936 he was the CV’s president as well as a founding member of the National Representation [Reichsvertretung] in 1933. |
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