The German Reichstag, established in 1871, is the most significant symbolic place of the German Parliament in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. Given the status and self-understanding of the German Jews as legally equal citizens, and in view of the low proportion of the overall population they constituted anyway, the Reichstag was not a relevant forum for representation of Jewish concerns. Jewish parliamentarians, who i…
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Schüler-Springorum, Stefanie, “Reichstag”, in: Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture Online, Original German Language Edition: Enzyklopädie Jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur. Im Auftrag der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig herausgegeben von Dan Diner. © J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart/Springer-Verlag GmbH Deutschland 2011–2017. Consulted online on 06 December 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2468-8894_ejhc_COM_0731>
First published online: 2017
First print edition: 20221116
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