Language:
German
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
14 (2005) 219-241
Keywords:
Geller, Avraam
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Universities and colleges
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Jews
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Jews History 1933-1939
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Antisemitism History 1933-1939
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Berlin (Germany)
Abstract:
Heller was one of many East European Jewish students at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin. In 1934 he submitted his doctoral dissertation, in which he showed that most Jews suffered during the Russian Revolution and under the Soviet regime, contradicting the Nazi identification of Bolsheviks with Jews and the allegation that Jews were the main supporters and beneficiaries of the Revolution. Heller passed his oral examination with distinction, and his dissertation was approved by two professors; he was about to receive his doctorate when the director of the Institute for the Scientific Study of the Soviet Union, Hermann Greife, intervened with university, government, and Party officials against the granting of a doctorate opposed to Nazi ideology. Heller, who had in the meantime settled in Palestine, was informed that he had been found unworthy of a doctoral degree. In 1961 he applied to the university (then the Humboldt-Universität in the DDR) for retroactive recognition of his doctorate, but was rejected because of the anti-Bolshevist nature of the dissertation. The university finally bestowed the doctorate on Heller in 1992.
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