The scientification of the Jewish question in Nazi Germany 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