The Beginnings of Anti-Jewish Legislation
Title | The Beginnings of Anti-Jewish Legislation PDF eBook |
Author | Mária M. Kovács |
Publisher | Central European University Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2023-11-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9633866219 |
The Nazi 1933 Civil Service Law and the 1935 Nuremberg Laws are often considered the first anti-Jewish decrees in interwar Europe. Mária M. Kovács convincingly argues that Hungary’s numerus clausus law of 1920, which introduced a Jewish quota at Hungary’s institutions of higher learning, was, in fact, interwar Europe’s first antisemitic law. By defining—and discriminating against—Jews as a separate “racial” or “national” group, it abrogated the principle of equal rights that had been enshrined into law; as such, it marked an abrupt reversal of Jewish emancipation in Hungary. Moreover, the numerus clausus law set the stage for subsequent “Jewish Laws” (in the late 1930s and early 1940s) that sought to solve Hungary’s “Jewish Question” by means of extraordinary legal measures that targeted Jews alone. This book examines the origins and implementation of the numerus clausus, as well as the attempts to dampen its impact on Hungary’s international reputation, focusing on the debates surrounding it promulgation (1920), its modification (1928) and its eventual application to other areas of Jewish life (1938–45).
Anti-Semitism in American History
Title | Anti-Semitism in American History PDF eBook |
Author | David A. Gerber |
Publisher | Urbana : University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
Title | The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion PDF eBook |
Author | Sergei Nilus |
Publisher | |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2019-02-26 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9781947844964 |
"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is almost certainly fiction, but its impact was not. Originating in Russia, it landed in the English-speaking world where it caused great consternation. Much is made of German anti-semitism, but there was fertile soil for "The Protocols" across Europe and even in America, thanks to Henry Ford and others.
Hitler's American Model
Title | Hitler's American Model PDF eBook |
Author | James Q. Whitman |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2017-02-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1400884632 |
How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Contrary to those who have insisted that there was no meaningful connection between American and German racial repression, Whitman demonstrates that the Nazis took a real, sustained, significant, and revealing interest in American race policies. As Whitman shows, the Nuremberg Laws were crafted in an atmosphere of considerable attention to the precedents American race laws had to offer. German praise for American practices, already found in Hitler's Mein Kampf, was continuous throughout the early 1930s, and the most radical Nazi lawyers were eager advocates of the use of American models. But while Jim Crow segregation was one aspect of American law that appealed to Nazi radicals, it was not the most consequential one. Rather, both American citizenship and antimiscegenation laws proved directly relevant to the two principal Nuremberg Laws—the Citizenship Law and the Blood Law. Whitman looks at the ultimate, ugly irony that when Nazis rejected American practices, it was sometimes not because they found them too enlightened, but too harsh. Indelibly linking American race laws to the shaping of Nazi policies in Germany, Hitler's American Model upends understandings of America's influence on racist practices in the wider world.
The Nuremberg Laws
Title | The Nuremberg Laws PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Newman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 102 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781560063544 |
Chronicles the passage of the Nuremberg laws by the German government in 1935 which denied basic human rights to millions of Jews, Gypsies, and other minority groups.
The Twisted Road to Auschwitz
Title | The Twisted Road to Auschwitz PDF eBook |
Author | Karl A. Schleunes |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Germany |
ISBN | 9780252061479 |
Going beyond the fanatical anti-Semitism of Hitler and his chiefs, Schleunes analyzes "the internal structure of the [Nazi] regime, the role of its bureaucracies, and the rivalries between competing power groups ... to trace the early stages of discrimination against Jews and their exclusion from public life that led ultimately to their deaths."--p.vii.
The Origins of the Holocaust
Title | The Origins of the Holocaust PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Robert Marrus |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 749 |
Release | 2011-08-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 311097049X |
This edition is the first of its kind to offer a basic collection of facsimile, English language, historical articles on all aspects of the extermination of the European Jews. A total of 300 articles from 84 journals and collections allows the reader to gain an overview of this field. The edition both provides access to the immense, rich array of scholarly articles published after 1960 on the history of the Holocaust and encourages critical assessment of conflicting interpretations of these horrifying events. The series traces Nazi persecution of Jews before the implementation of the "Final Solution", demonstrates how the Germans coordinated anti-Jewish activities in conquered territories, and sheds light on the victims in concentration camps, ending with the liberation of the concentration camp victims and articles on the trials of war criminals. The publications covered originate from the years 1950 to 1987. Included are authors such as Jakob Katz, Saul Friedländer, Eberhard Jäckel, Bruno Bettelheim and Herbert A. Strauss.