Language:
English
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
European Journal of Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
1,2 (2007) 395-415
Keywords:
Frank, Walter,
;
Forschungen zur Judenfrage
;
Antisemitism in the press
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Periodicals
Abstract:
The journal "Forschungen zur Judenfrage" (1937-1944) was a publishing venture of Walter Frank's Reichsinstitut für Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands. The first volumes contained revised versions of papers presented at the annual conferences of the Jewish Department of the Reichsinstitut, and dealt mainly with studies on the Jewish "race", Jewish history, and biographies, the latter being mainly ad hominem attacks on living and historical Jewish personalities. Among the contributors were raciologists such as Otmar von Verschuer and Eugen Fischer, the historian Karl Georg Kuhn, the classicist Hans Bogner, and the scholars Franz Koch, Max Wundt, Gerhardt Kittel, and Julius Evola. Some of these writers successfully continued in their academic careers after 1945. The journal came to an end with its ninth instalment, printed in late 1944 or early 1945. Argues that the journal did not affect Nazi policy and that the writers did not have political influence; there were many more aggressive antisemitic journals in Nazi Germany of the 1940s.
DOI:
10.1163/187247107783876220
URL:
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