Religion, Politics and Ideology in the Third Reich: Selected Essays

by Tal,Uriel

• ISBN13: 9780714651859
• ISBN10: 0714651850
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-07-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume comprises a representative selection of essays - many of them difficult to find - of the late Uriel Tal. There has scarcely been another scholar who was as keenly aware of what German National Socialism owed to a combination of bowdlerised Christianity and bastardised science, a view he argued with great cogency and formidable scholarship. The cultural depth, clarity of exposition and scholarly richness of Tal's essays will establish formidable standards for the future volumes in this series. This volume also contains a personal memoir of Uriel Tal by Saul Friedlander.

Author Biography

Uriel Tal was Professor of Modern Jewish History at Tel Aviv University and Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies.

Table of Contents

In memoriam
Violence and the Jew in Nazi ideology	p. 1
'Political earth' of Nazism prior to the Holocaust	p. 16
On the study of the Holocaust and genocide	p. 55
Structures of German 'political theology' in the Nazi era	p. 87
Law and theology : on the status of German Jewry at the outset of the Third Reich (1933/34)	p. 130
Religious and anti-religious roots of modern anti-Semitism	p. 171
On modern Lutheranism and the Jews	p. 191
Jewish and universal social ethics in the life and thought of Albert Einstein	p. 204
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