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The betrayal of the humanities : the university during the Third Reich / edited by Bernard M. Levinson and Robert P. Ericksen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in antisemitism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Universities and colleges--Germany--History--20th century.
- Universities and colleges.
- Humanities--Study and teaching (Higher)--Germany--History--20th century.
- Humanities.
- Learning and scholarship--Germany--History--20th century.
- Learning and scholarship.
- National socialism and education--History.
- National socialism and education.
- Antisemitism in higher education--Germany--History--20th century.
- Antisemitism in higher education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2022.
- Contents:
- I. Nazi Germany and the historical humanities
- The history of the humanities in the Third Reich / Alan E. Steinweis
- The "Orient" and "Us" : making ancient Oriental studies relevant during the Nazi regime / Suzanne L. Marchand
- Luther scholars, Jews, and Judaism during the Third Reich : from the hallowed halls of academia to the sacred spaces of German Protestantism / Christopher J. Probst
- Gerhard von Rad's struggle against the Nazification of the Old Testament / Bernard M. Levinson
- Jewish studies in the service of Nazi ideology : Tübingen's Faculty of Theology as a center for Antisemitic research / Anders Gerdmar
- Hermann Grapow, Egyptology, and national socialist initiatives for the humanities / Thomas Schneider
- German Assyriology : a discipline in troubled waters / Johannes Renger
- National socialist archaeology as a Faustian bargain : the contrasting careers of Hans Reinerth and Herbert Jankuhn / Bettina Arnold
- II. Law, music, and philosophy in the Third Reich
- Hitler's willing law professors / Oren Gross
- The music of Arnold Schoenberg : catastrophe and creation / Michael Cherlin
- Political philosophy : Hannah Arendt and Aurel Kolnai as interpreters of the Nazi totalitarian state / Emmanuel Faye
- III. Nazi Germany and beyond
- The Nazification and denazification of the University of Göttingen / Robert P. Ericksen
- The University of Göttingen and its postwar response to persecuted colleagues : a broken relationship / Anikó Szabó
- Italian fascism : decentering standard assumptions about antisemitism and totalitarianism / Franklin Hugh Adler
- Is there an anti-Jewish bias in today's university? / Alvin H. Rosenfeld.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Betrayal of the humanities
- ISBN:
- 9780253060808 (electronic bk.)
- 025306080X (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 40031259594
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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