ABSTRACT
A small group of right-wing Jews, although passionately opposed to the Zionist alternative, professed to see major flaws in the behavior of the Jewish majority that partially justified Germanic hostility and called for major mending action. In the summer of 1920, Dr. Max Naumann and three associates visited the Berlin headquarters of the Centralverein to complain to Ludwig Hollander that the organization induced Jews to make political decisions from a Jewish, rather than a German, point of view. Naumann and his followers repeatedly hammered home their conviction that religion really had nothing to do with the modern Jewish question. Neither Jews nor their detractors took religion very seriously any more. Naumann tragic failure to achieve a compromise with the Nazis took on added dimension as it became clear that chauvinism had blinded thousands of Jews to any alternative to life as Germans in Germany.
