Sprache:
Deutsch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Trumah
Angaben zur Quelle:
8 (1999) 7-27
Schlagwort(e):
Strich, Fritz,
;
Fränkel, Jonas,
;
Staiger, Emil
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Jews History 1939-1945
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Kurzfassung:
Swiss scholars of German literature strove to maintain a strictly unpolitical attitude to Nazi Germany in order not to endanger their chances to publish in that country. The main advocate of this approach was Emil Staiger of the University of Zürich, who had been a member of a pro-Nazi front in the 1930s, and was the most influential literary critic of his time. Using a text-immanent analysis which supposedly ignored all extraneous factors, he "happened" to favor the same writers favored by the Nazis, and denounced Weimar, especially Jewish, writers as degenerate. Swiss universities had a "black list" of writers not to be taught. Most Swiss scholars were hostile to refugees, due to antisemitism and fear of competition; they supported the government's policy to refuse them asylum and employment. Describes the isolated position of the few Jewish scholars of German who had been at Swiss universities since well before 1933. One, Jonas Fränkel, was dismissed as editor of the works of Gottfried Keller under pressure from Germany and from Swiss nationalists.
Anmerkung:
Among others, on the policy of Swiss universities toward the Jewish researchers Fritz Strich and Jonas Fränkel, and the antisemitism in the works of Emil Staiger.
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