Consists of two essays which refute the arguments used by Goldhagen in "Hitler's Willing Executioners." Finkelstein's "Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's 'Crazy' Thesis: A Critique of 'Hitler's Willing Executioners'" (pp. 1-100) contends that Goldhagen's book is neither novel nor a schola…
If there was one person who could be said to light the touch-paper for the epochal transformation of European religion and culture that we now call the Reformation, it was Martin Luther. And Luther and his followers were to play a central role in the Protestant world that was to…
"Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the Ame…
Seit im 19. Jahrhundert durch die Emanzipationsgesetzgebung die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen dazu geschaffen worden waren, wurden die Juden immer stärker zu einem aktiven Teil des politischen Systems in Deutschland. Das Buch zeigt, wie die Veränderungen eine solche Teilnahme er…
Judenfeindschaft aus unterschiedlichen Motiven gipfelte unter nationalsozialistischer Ideologie im 20. Jh. im Völkermord. Der Judenhass lebte fort, daneben entstand nach dem Holocaust ein mit neuen Argumenten operierender Antisemitismus, der Scham- und Schuldgefühlen entspringt.…
"In German Idealism and the Jew, Michael Mack uncovers the deep roots of anti-Semitism in the German philosophical tradition. While many have read German anti-Semitism as a reaction against Enlightenment philosophy, Mack instead contends that the redefinition of the Jews as irra…
"In German Idealism and the Jew, Michael Mack uncovers the deep roots of anti-Semitism in the German philosophical tradition. While many have read German anti-Semitism as a reaction against Enlightenment philosophy, Mack instead contends that the redefinition of the Jews as irra…
"In German Idealism and the Jew, Michael Mack uncovers the deep roots of anti-Semitism in the German philosophical tradition. While many have read German anti-Semitism as a reaction against Enlightenment philosophy, Mack instead contends that the redefinition of the Jews as irra…
As Adolf Hitler strategised his way to power, he knew that it was necessary to gain the support of theology and the Church. This study looks at roots of theological anti-Semitism and how Jews and Judaism were constructed, positively and negatively, in the biblical interpretation…
