Early in his political career, Adolf Hitler declared the importance
of what he called "an antisemitism of reason." Determined not to
rely solely on traditional, cruder forms of prejudice against Jews,
he hoped that his exclusionary and violent policies would be
legitimized by scientific scholarship. The result was a disturbing,
and long-overlooked, aspect of National Socialism: Nazi Jewish
Studies.
"Studying the Jew" investigates the careers of a few dozen
German scholars who forged an interdisciplinary field, drawing upon
studies in anthropology, biology, religion, history, and the social
sciences to create a comprehensive portrait of the Jew--one with
devastating consequences. Working within the universities and
research institutions of the Third Reich, these men fabricated an
elaborate empirical basis for Nazi antisemitic policies. They
supported the Nazi campaign against Jews by defining them as
racially alien, morally corrupt, and inherently criminal.
In a chilling story of academics who perverted their talents
and distorted their research in support of persecution and
genocide, "Studying the Jew" explores the intersection of ideology
and scholarship, the state and the university, the intellectual and
his motivations, to provide a new appreciation of the use and abuse
of learning and the horrors perpetrated in the name of reason.
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