Title: Studying the Jew : scholarly antisemitism in Nazi Germany /
Authors: Steinweis, Alan E.
Publisher: Harvard University Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Antisemitism Germany History; National socialism and scholarship.; National socialism and intellectuals.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Causes; Germany Intellectual life; Germany Ethnic relations.
Abstract: "Studying the Jew investigates the careers of a few dozen German scholars who forged an interdisciplinary field, drawing upon studies in anthropology, biology, religion, history, and the social sciences to create a comprehensive portrait of the Jew - one with devastating consequences. Working within the universities and research institutions of the Third Reich, these men fabricated an elaborate empirical basis for Nazi antisemitic policies. They supported the Nazi campaign against Jews by defining them as racially alien, morally corrupt, and inherently criminal."--Jacket.
Contents: An "antisemitism of reason" -- Racializing the Jew -- The blood and sins of their fathers -- Dissimilation through scholarship -- Pathologizing the Jew.