Language:
English
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
27,3 (1997) 385-444
Keywords:
Huizinga, Johan,
;
Leers, Johann von,
;
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Recounts an incident at Leiden University in 1933 when the historian Johan Huizinga, the rector of the University, informed the Nazi scholar Johann von Leers, who was attending an international student conference there, that he was persona non grata on the grounds that he had published an antisemitic pamphlet in which he knowingly presented completely discredited popular legends about Jews as perpetrators of ritual murder as historical fact. At the time, Huizinga's position was not welcomed by the university's governing board or the Dutch Foreign Ministry. In 1940, Huizinga and other professors at Leiden University refused to accede to German demands that their Jewish colleagues be dismissed. During the German occupation of the Netherlands, the 70-year-old historian was imprisoned for a while in a German camp. This English translation, by Lionel Gossman and Reinier Leushuis, is accompanied by an introduction (pp. 385-386) and afterword (pp. 418-431), along with additional notes, by Lionel Gossman.
Note:
Pp. 385-386 and 418-431 contain an introduction and afterword by Lionel Gossman to Otterspeer's essay, first published in Dutch in 1984 (as a booklet).
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