Reaping the Judenfrage
Jewish Wine Merchants in Central Europe before World War I
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8157422 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin D Goldberg, Kevin Goldberg (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 224-245 |
| Publication date | 2013-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Agricultural History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-1482 • E-ISSN: 1533-8290 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3098/ah.2013.87.2.224 |
| OpenAlex | W2328965778 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
“Reaping the Judenfrage” integrates the vast body of literature on the nineteenth-century “Jewish question” with the long-forgotten “artificial wine question” of the same period. German and Austrian Jews played pivotal roles in the wine trade, often as merchants connecting winegrowers to distant consumers. As new technologies, modern commercial strategies, and the burgeoning field of enology revolutionized the Central European wine trade, German and Austrian winegrowers struggled to remain competitive. Political parties and other pressure groups portrayed the Jewish wine merchant as the embodiment of this dislocation. In doing so, the “artificial wine question,” the single-most important debate to emerge from the trade’s crisis, was explicitly connected to the by-then mainstreamed “Jewish question.” Consequently, discussions of “natural” and “artificial” as they related to wine—so influential for later discursive developments in the broader food trades—were, from their birth, marked by the overlapping ideologies of anti-Semitism and anti-capitalism
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Economic history · Judaism · Political science · Visual arts · Wine · History · Horticultural and Viticultural Research · Wine Industry and Tourism
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |