Language:
English
Year of publication:
1987
Titel der Quelle:
Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual
Angaben zur Quelle:
4 (1987) 139-174
Keywords:
Jewish refugees
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews History 1939-1945
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Argues that the academic studies of antisemitism produced by German-Jewish refugee scholars in the U.S. were a continuation of the debates on the "Jewish question" in Germany since the Emancipation. Examines factors influencing their emigration in the 1930s and their integration in American society and intellectual life. Many refugee psychologists, sociologists, and historians found positions at the New School for Social Research and at Columbia University's Institut für Sozialforschung. Members of the Institut continued to develop their "critical theory", a combination of Marxist methodology and economic analysis with psychoanalysis, and applied it to European fascism. Although they minimized German antisemitism, and Jewish members preferred not to emphasize their Jewish identity, from the late 1930s they began studies of antisemitism, at first focusing on its political and economic causes. The Studies in Prejudice Series (1944-1950) attempted to find the psychological roots of antisemitism and xenophobia in all cultures.
Note:
Especially in the USA.
URL:
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