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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455113503321

Autore

Steinweis Alan E

Titolo

Studying the Jew [[electronic resource] ] : scholarly antisemitism in Nazi Germany / / Alan E. Steinweis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-674-04399-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Disciplina

940.53/180943

Soggetti

Antisemitism - Germany - History - 20th century

National socialism and scholarship

National socialism and intellectuals

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Causes

Electronic books.

Germany Intellectual life 20th century

Germany Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-194) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. An "Antisemitism of Reason" -- 2. Racializing the Jew -- 3. The Blood and Sins of Their Fathers -- 4. Dissimilation through Scholarship -- 5. Pathologizing the Jew -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Studying the Jew investigates those German scholars who forged an interdisciplinary field to create a comprehensive portrait of the Jew, fabricating an empirical basis for Nazi antisemitic policies. In a chilling story of academics who perverted their talents and distorted their research in support of persecution and genocide, Studying the Jew explores the intersection of ideology and scholarship, the state and the university, the intellectual and his motivations, to provide a new appreciation of the use and abuse of learning and the horrors perpetrated in the name of reason.