Studying the Jew : scholarly antisemitism in Nazi Germany / Alan E. Steinweis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steinweis, Alan E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antisemitism--Germany--History--20th century.

Antisemitism.

National socialism and scholarship.

National socialism and intellectuals.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Causes.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.

Germany.

Germany--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Originally published: 2006.

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

ISBN:

9780674267541

0674267540

9780674043992

0674043995

OCLC:

1049621284