Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2012
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Modern History
Angaben zur Quelle:
84,2 (2012) 369-400
Schlagwort(e):
Kristallnacht, 1938
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Antisemitism History 1933-1939
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Book burning
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Torah scrolls
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Kurzfassung:
Following is a summary of the article which appeared in "Commentary". The "Kristallnacht" pogrom of 1938 was often accompanied by the desecration and burning of Torah scrolls. These scroll-burnings were arranged as theatrical performances, in which masses of Germans would participate. The choice of a religious, and not a racial, symbol of Jewry as the target of Nazi wrath is suggestive. Argues that setting the Jewish Bible ablaze, the Nazis tried to excise Judaism from the German identity, to create a new past for the Third Reich and for German Christianity. It was part of a project to construct a new German Christianity that would not be connected to Jewish origins or to other Christian European Churches. The planned excision of the Jewish Bible from German and, ultimately, world culture would allow the Nazis to supersede the Jews as the Chosen People, to extinguish Jewish authority over the past, and to claim history and time for itself.
Anmerkung:
Other versions appeared in "Commentary" 137,6 (2014) 30-34 and as "A world without Jews: Nazi imagination from persecution to genocide" in "Lessons and Legacies" (2017) 125-138.
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