Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume I
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Introduction to Volume I
- 1 Historiography of the Holocaust: Early Developments
- 2 The Historiography of the Holocaust: The Years of Diversification and Integration
- 3 From “Final Solution” to “Holocaust”: Autobiographical Reflections
- 4 The Holocaust, Genocide, and the Origins of the Commensurability Problem
- 5 Fascism and Holocaust
- 6 The Holocaust and Modernity
- 7 Integrated Approaches and Boundaries in Holocaust Scholarship
- 8 Mapping the Holocaust
- 9 Archiving the Holocaust
- 10 Antisemitism in Interwar Europe
- 11 Race-Thinking, Völkisch-Nationalism, and Eugenics
- 12 Inter-ethnic Violence in Europe before the Holocaust
- 13 Communism and Anticommunism
- 14 Weimar Germany’s Vanishing Point: Politics, Violence, and the Rise of the Nazis, 1918–1933
- 15 Hitler and the Nazi Party
- 16 Hitler, State, and Party
- 17 Antisemitic Policy in the Early Years of the Third Reich
- 18 Popular Participation in Anti-Jewish Policy up to 1938
- 19 Nazi Biopolitics: Eugenics, Racial Policy, and the Persecution of “Asoziale,” 1933–1939
- 20 “Judenforschung”: Nazi Jewish Studies
- 21 Belonging and Belongings: The Dispossession of German Jews
- 22 Kristallnacht
- 23 Lebensraum, Autarky, and a New Imperial Order
- 24 International Responses to Nazi Race and Jewish Policy, 1933–1939
- Index
- References
20 - “Judenforschung”: Nazi Jewish Studies
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume I
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Introduction to Volume I
- 1 Historiography of the Holocaust: Early Developments
- 2 The Historiography of the Holocaust: The Years of Diversification and Integration
- 3 From “Final Solution” to “Holocaust”: Autobiographical Reflections
- 4 The Holocaust, Genocide, and the Origins of the Commensurability Problem
- 5 Fascism and Holocaust
- 6 The Holocaust and Modernity
- 7 Integrated Approaches and Boundaries in Holocaust Scholarship
- 8 Mapping the Holocaust
- 9 Archiving the Holocaust
- 10 Antisemitism in Interwar Europe
- 11 Race-Thinking, Völkisch-Nationalism, and Eugenics
- 12 Inter-ethnic Violence in Europe before the Holocaust
- 13 Communism and Anticommunism
- 14 Weimar Germany’s Vanishing Point: Politics, Violence, and the Rise of the Nazis, 1918–1933
- 15 Hitler and the Nazi Party
- 16 Hitler, State, and Party
- 17 Antisemitic Policy in the Early Years of the Third Reich
- 18 Popular Participation in Anti-Jewish Policy up to 1938
- 19 Nazi Biopolitics: Eugenics, Racial Policy, and the Persecution of “Asoziale,” 1933–1939
- 20 “Judenforschung”: Nazi Jewish Studies
- 21 Belonging and Belongings: The Dispossession of German Jews
- 22 Kristallnacht
- 23 Lebensraum, Autarky, and a New Imperial Order
- 24 International Responses to Nazi Race and Jewish Policy, 1933–1939
- Index
- References
Summary
Parallel to the anti-Jewish policy of the National Socialists that culminated in mass murder, so-called “Judenforschung” was established in the Third Reich as an independent field of study, outside traditional disciplines, through a number of institutions, publications, and public events. In Nazi “Judenforschung,” antisemitism was the leading principle, and the antisemitically constructed “Jewish Question” was the focus of research activity. Thereby, contrary to the tradition of German academia, themes of Jewish history became in themselves respectable subjects of research. The chapter gives an overview of the different institutions for “Judenforschung” in the Third Reich and the dynamics of the field from the mid 1930s until the end of the Second World War; presents different responses to and perceptions of Nazi “Judenforschung” during and after the Second World War; analyzes the relationship between scholarship and antisemitism in Nazi “Judenforschung” that is crucial for the whole research field and its practice in the Third Reich; discusses the role of scholarship in the Holocaust; and finally explores the role of scholars in perpetrating Nazi crimes.
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- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust , pp. 420 - 439Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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