An important condition of the anti-semitic agitation was the occupational and social characteristic of the German Jewish people of 19th century. In order to publicize the existing unbalance between ‘the property of Jewish people and the labor of Chris ...
An important condition of the anti-semitic agitation was the occupational and social characteristic of the German Jewish people of 19th century. In order to publicize the existing unbalance between ‘the property of Jewish people and the labor of Christians,’ the advocates of anti- semitism asked to introduce the statistics of jobs based on religion. They understood the liberation as the complete assimilation through the reconstruction of job structure. However, the result of statistics showed them that Jewish people selectively utilized only the advantage, and benefit of liberation. In this sense, the characteristic of the job structure of the German Jewish as an important condition to the modern anti-semitism can be summarized as follows: First, they mostly concentrated in commercial and financial businesses. This helped them escape from the lower class in a short time, but also made to have higher economic status by way of the accumulation of wealth. Second, they increasingly moved into the professional and intellectual fields. Jewish people's entry into the civil class was possible by their advancement into the professional and intellectuals fields through high education. This fact became a background from which the Jewish influences that had been elevated to the economic, socio-cultual, and even psychological fields were being watched. Thirdly, the independent business of Jewish people had increased in its proportion. These characteristics caused the separation between the Jewish group and non-Jewish group so as to take a role prohibiting the socio-economic interchange between them.
Thus, the Jewish citizens had shown different features from non-jewish citizens in their aspects of religion, job structure, and political orientation. In spite of (or because of) their constant acculturation, the Jewish citizens had been somewhat isolated from, and were not integrated into, the mainstream of society during the Second Reich of Germany. Moreover, in a short period during which the Jewish had achieved socio-economic status, and in the period of economic crisis, the Jewish problem had become not the problem of Jewish liberation but the problem demanding the liberation from the strong Jewish people.
In a sense that the Jewish culture and religion were the basic premise for the preservation of the Jewish identity, the Jewish family has taken an important role in preserving the Jewish religion and culture. Moreover, for Jews who set a high value on their religious activities, family meant an important space for community building and religious activities. The rigid observance of table rule(Speisegobot) as well as the observance of the Sabbath, and the performance of religious festival was a factor that ruled their family. The children who were too young to take religious class had acquired the traditional Jewish emotional mood at home. The close relationship between family and religion has made it possible for Judaism to exist for thousands years. Taking these kinds of religious roles, Jewish women also tried to transform their families with the values of middle-class civil family. The Jewish families have experienced a rapid change for the nineteenth century. The liberation of Jews, the cultural transformation(Akkulturation), and the upgrade of the socio-economic status of Jews have made the civil family and its value to be the typical factors of the Jewish families. The construction and function of family changed after their social upgrade. Now Jews no longer live only within their own socio-cultural world, but, maintaining their own unique group identity with the acquired legal equality, try to devote themselves to the integration of the whole Germans. Thus, the Jewish family took tow kinds of function.