Language:
English
Year of publication:
1987
Titel der Quelle:
Social Science History
Angaben zur Quelle:
11,2 (1987) 113-138
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jewish refugees
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Discusses the emigration of Jewish social scientists, generally left-wing intellectuals, who were forced by the Nazi regime to leave Germany and Austria and chose to go to the West rather than to the Soviet Union. Focuses on the Vienna School of socialist economists and the Frankfurt School of neo-Marxian sociologists. Contends that their criticism of both capitalism and communism, and their opposition to any totalitarian regime stemmed from the Jewish tradition of hatred of tyranny and their recognition that Jews can only survive and function freely as intellectuals in a Western-style democracy. Concludes that all totalitarian systems are prone to antisemitism and this point was a factor in the Jewish social scientists' emigration process.
Note:
On German and Austrian Jewish social scientists. Appeared in German in "Exil, Wissenschaft, Identität" (1988).
URL:
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