TY  - BOOK
AU  - Junginger, Horst
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017//
TI  - scientification of the "Jewish question" in Nazi Germany
T3  - Numen book series 157
PB  - Brill
CY  - Leiden
KW  - Jews
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - Antisemitism
KW  - National socialism and science
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Jews ; Government policy
AB  - "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"--
SN  - 9789004341883
UR  - http://doi.org/10.1163/9789004341883
UR  - http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/9789004341883
UR  - http://www.brill.com/product_id65725
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004341883
DO  - 10.1163/9789004341883
LA  - English
N1  - Horst Junginger
ID  - 87669427X
ER  -