Talk:Eastern European Jewry

Ostjuden

The article includes the following sentence The phrase 'Eastern European Jews' or 'Jews of the East' (from German: Ostjuden) was established during the 19th century. However, the following sources claim that the phrase was established later, during and after WWI:

• Wertheimer, Jack (1987). Unwelcome strangers : East European Jews in imperial Germany. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504893-8. OCLC 14100021.

For the term Ostjuden, though casually imposed onto the entire history of Eastern Jews in Germany, simply was not employed before World War I in reference to foreign Jews residing in the Reich

• Kałczewiak, Mariusz (2021-09-08). "When the "Ostjuden" Returned: Linguistic Continuities in German-Language Writing about Eastern European Jews". Naharaim. 0 (0). Walter de Gruyter GmbH. doi:10.1515/naharaim-2020-0015. ISSN 1862-9156.

Though it is difficult to precisely trace the career of the term “Ostjuden” in German public discourse,33 the fact that many recent German scholarly works dealing with the history of this term refer to Birnbaum’s assumed coining of “Ostjuden” ... Block suggests that Birnbaum used the term “ostjüdisch” for the first time in 1897. Block, “In the Eyes of Others,” 176.

• Aschheim, Steven E. (1982). Brothers and strangers : the east European Jew in German and German Jewish consciousness, 1800-1923. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-09113-2. OCLC 179582739.

THE idea of the Ostjude ("Eastern" Jew) was developed, in its essentials, over the course of the first half of the nineteenth century. To be sure, the generic term Ostjude did not gain popular currency until the early twentieth century

Moreover, all these sources report that the expression "Ostjude" has a disparaging connotation and is therefore not a synonym for "Eastern European Jew".

I have added the template:citation needed, but the sentence probably needs to be removed. Gitz (talk) (contribs) 22:48, 28 April 2023 (UTC)