Coudenhove-Kalergi, Richard Nikolaus Eijiro (1894 - 1972), Graf von
Coudenhove-Kalergi, Heinrich Joahann Maria (1859 - 1906), Graf von
R. N. Coudenhove-Kalergi: Judenhass von heute. Graf H. Coudenhove-Kalergi: Das wesen des antisemitismus. Wien - Zürich, Paneuropa - Verlag, 1935. 332 p. €40,00
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8 vo, original covers. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Dust jacket is missing. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong reading copy.
Includes index Subject: Jewish question. Jews - Persecutions - Political and social conditions. Name index.
'Heinrich Johann Maria von Coudenhove-Kalergi was an Austrian traveller and diplomat of the Coudenhove-Kalergi family. He was born in Vienna and died in Poběžovice. He spoke 18 languages (including Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew and Japanese) and his postings included ones to Athens, Rio de Janeiro, Constantinople, Buenos Aires and Tokio. He was then made Deputy Minister of Austria-Hungary to Japan, where he remained for 4 years, studying Buddhism and marrying a Japanese woman, Mitsuko. He was father to Richard Nikolaus Eijiro Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi an Austrian politician, geopolitician, a pioneer of European integration and the founder of the Paneuropean Union.

Richard Nikolaus Eijiro Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi was an Austrian politician, geopolitician, philosopher and count of Coudenhove-Kalergi, who was a pioneer of European integration.

In his attitudes towards race and religion, Coudenhove-Kalergi continued the work of his father. In his youth, he was an antisemite. He had expected to confirm his antipathy towards the Jews when he started working on his treatise Das Wesen des Antisemitismus.

But he came to a different conclusion by the time he published his book in 1901. Following an ironic critique of the new racial theories, he declared that the essence of antisemitism amounted to nothing more credible than fanatical religious hatred. He traced that fanaticism to religious bigotry that originated in the promulgation of Torah under Ezra.

In 1932 Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi composed a preface for a new edition of his father's condemnation of antisemitism, reissued by his own publishing house. In 1933 he responded to the ascendance of National Socialism by collaborating with Heinrich Mann, Arthur Holitscher, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Max Brod in writing and publishing the pamphlet Gegen die Phrase vom jüdischen Schädling (Against the Phrase 'Jewish Parasite').

According to the elder Coudenhove-Kalergi, Jewish religious bigotry provoked opposition from the relatively tolerant Greco-Roman polytheists, eliciting their anti-Judaic reaction. Antisemitism came into existence when Christianity and Islam took over the intolerant fanaticism of Judaism, and turned it against the Jews. Thus Heinrich Coudenhove-Kalergi credited the Jews with originating religious intolerance, and condemned it as a violation of genuine religious principles. He branded every sort of anti-Judaism unchristian. He further urged liberal Christians and Jews to ally in protecting both of their religions, and religion as such, against the emerging menace of secularism.' - Excerpts from Wikipedia