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The article reports on a March 2010 conference at the Center for Anti-Semitism Research at the Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, on the topic "The Emergence and Development of Anti-Semitism As a Political Movement in European Comparison 1879-1914." Discussions covered such issues as the use of the press and public media to promote anti-Semitism and the differences between anti-Semitism as practiced in Germany and other European countries.

This article focuses on the future expectations of the German Jews during the 19th century as expressed in the German-Jewish newspapers and journals, and on how the expectations varied across different Jewish groups and changed over time. Topics that Jewish Germans, such as Ludwig Geiger and Felix Theilhaber, wrote about in Jewish newspapers including "Der Israelit" and "Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums (AZJ)" are discussed, which include Zionism in Germany, the migrations of Jews, and antisemitism in Germany.