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“The Same Causes Occasioning the Same Effects”: The “Jewish Question”, the “Chinese Question” and the Global Precedents of Exclusion in Late Nineteenth Century Central Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2024

Andrei Sorescu*
Affiliation:
New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania

Abstract

Why was the “Chinese Question” of immigration control and exclusion in the United States imagined as an appealing precedent for dealing with the “Jewish Question” of emancipation and citizenship in fin-de-siècle Romania, Hungary, and Austria? The present article examines a vast corpus of parliamentary debates, press, and pamphlets, in order to demonstrate how thinking in terms of “questions” enabled historical actors to place themselves within a “global moment” by highlighting structural similarities that would justify the analogy. By rhetorically turning to an America that was placed at the forefront of “liberal” progress, yet now began to explicitly place limits to its inclusiveness, politicians in Central and Eastern Europe sought to present their own exclusionary policies as timely and acceptable, rather than anachronistic affronts to the spirit of the age. Drawing upon this global precedent was therefore hoped to ward off criticism: if “civilized” America could draw the line, be it as a matter of principle or pragmatism, then antisemitism could be justified with reference to Sinophobia.

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30 I am thankful to an anonymous reviewer for this perceptive suggestion.

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62 [Boerescu], Mémoire sur la revision, 10.

63 See Sophie B. Roberts, Citizenship and Antisemitism in French Colonial Algeria, 1870–1962 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).

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65 [Boerescu], Mémoire sur la revision, 1516, 22.

66 [Boerescu], Mémoire sur la revision, 2122

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68 D. Rosetti-Tețcanu, Chamber of Deputies, 10 September 1879, MOf, 58978.

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75 Harry H. Marks, ‘Down with the Jews!’, American Jewish Archives 26, no. 1 (1964): 18.

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81 Case, Age of Questions, 11719.

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84 Lajos Hentaller, 9 June 1882, OKN, vol. 6, 268.

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88 ‘A drezdai német reformegylet nyilvános előadási estélye’ [Evening Public Lecture at the German Reform Society in Dresden], 12 Röpirat, 15 September 1882, 29.

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95 ‘Zeitungsnachrichten und Correspondenzen’, Der Israelit, 7 June 1882, 565.

96 Beurle, Amerikanische Anti-Chinesen-Bill, 27.

97 Beurle, Amerikanische Anti-Chinesen-Bill, 289.

98 Beurle, Amerikanische Anti-Chinesen-Bill, 30.

99 Beurle, Amerikanische Anti-Chinesen-Bill, 323.

100 18 February 1890, SPSHAOR, Session 10, vol. 11, 1345462.

101 18 February 1890, SPSHAOR, Session 10, vol. 11, 134625.

102 20 June 1891, SPSHAOR, Session 11, vol. 2, 10034.

103 15 December 1893, SPSHAOR, Session 11, vol. 10, 1226061.

104 Benno Gammerl, Subjects, Citizens, and Others: Administering Ethnic Heterogeneity in the British and Habsburg Empires, 1867–1918 (New York: Berghahn, 2017), 6770, 1067.

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106 ‘Zeitungsnachrichten’, Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums, 14 July 1887, 441.

107 ‘Zeitungsnachrichten’, Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums, 25 August 1887, 538.

108 Goldberg, ‘Racial Comparisons’, 1725.