The State, the Nation, and the JewsThe State, the Nation, and the Jews is a study of Germanys late nineteenth century antisemitism dispute and of the liberal tradition that engendered it. The Berlin Antisemitism Dispute began in 1879 when a leading German liberal, Heinrich von Treitschke, wrote an article supporting anti Jewish activities that seemed at the time to gel into an antisemitic movement. Treitschkes comments immediately provoked a debate within the German intellectual