@Book{87669427X, author="Junginger, Horst", title="scientification of the ``Jewish question'' in Nazi Germany", series="Numen book series 157", year="2017", publisher="Brill", address="Leiden", keywords="Jews; Government policy; Germany; History; Antisemitism; National socialism and science; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Ethnic relations; Politics and government; Jews ; Government policy", abstract="``The Scientification of the ''Jewish Question`` under National Socialism 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''--", note="Horst Junginger", isbn="9789004341883", doi="10.1163/9789004341883", url="http://doi.org/10.1163/9789004341883", url="http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/9789004341883", url="http://www.brill.com/product_id65725", url="https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004341883", language="English" }