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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810393103321

Autore

Junginger Horst

Titolo

The scientification of the "Jewish question" in Nazi Germany / / Horst Junginger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

90-04-34188-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (456 pages)

Collana

Numen Book Series, , 0169-8834 ; ; Volume 157

Disciplina

305.892404309043

Soggetti

Antisemitism - Germany - History - 20th century

National socialism and science

Jews - Government policy - Germany - History - 20th century

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Germany

Germany Politics and government 1933-1945

Germany Ethnic relations History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Religion Matters -- Religion, Blood and Race from the Perspective of the Study of Religion -- The University of Tübingen and the Jews: From Its Establishment in 1477 until the End of the Nineteenth Century -- The Weimar Republic as Zenith and Turning Point of Jewish Emancipation: The Process of Institutionalization and Its Conclusion -- The “Jewish Question” Crops Up Again -- The Debate over a Professorship for the Study of the “Jewish Question” -- Antisemitism in Theory and Practice: “The Smoking Gun” -- The Ultimate Consequences of Antisemitism -- In the Flow of History -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The Scientification of the \'Jewish Question\' in Nazi Germany describes the attempt of a considerable number of German scholars to counter the vanishing influence of religious prejudices against the Jews with a new antisemitic rationale. As anti-Jewish stereotypes of an old-fashioned soteriological kind had become dysfunctional under the pressure of secularization, a new, more objective explanation was needed to justify the age-old danger of Judaism in the present. In the



1930s a new research field called “Judenforschung” (Jew research) emerged. Its leading figures amalgamated racial and religious features to verify the existence of an everlasting “Jewish problem”. Along with that they offered scholarly concepts for its solution.