Language:
German
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts
Angaben zur Quelle:
5 (2006) 457-484
Keywords:
Grau, Wilhelm
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Straus, Raphael,
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Antisemitism History Middle Ages, 500-1500
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Antisemitism History
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Antisemitism History 1933-1939
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Jews History 1933-1939
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Jewish historians History 20th century
Abstract:
Describes the case of the German Jewish historian, Raphael Straus, who was a book publisher and had a doctorate in history. In 1932, when he was about to publish his book "Die Judengemeinde Regensburg im ausgehenden Mittelalter", he was approached by a German doctoral student, Wilhelm Grau, who claimed to be a friend of the Jews and convinced Straus to lend him the proofs of his book. Grau plagiarized much of Straus' text for his doctoral dissertation, "Antisemitismus im späten Mittelalter; das Ende der Regensburger Judengemeinde, 1450-1519" (1934), which had a clearly anti-Jewish bias. Straus had emigrated to Palestine in 1933, where he found out about Grau's scam. He managed to publish a review in a German newspaper in 1936 stating that Grau's work was worthless. Later, in an American periodicaL he could say that the doctorate was plagiarized. Grau was accepted in Germany as a historian, joined the Nazi Party in 1937, and worked for various government offices dealing with discrimination against and looting of German Jews. Between 1942-45 he was drafted into the Luftwaffe. After the war he lived in Germany, and died in the year 2000.
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