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

by Tal,Uriel

• ISBN13: 9780714681900
• ISBN10: 0714681903
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• 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	vii
Saul Friedlander
Series Editor's Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Violence and the Jew in Nazi Ideology	1	(15)
`Political Faith' of Nazism Prior to the Holocaust	16	(39)
On the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide	55	(32)
Structures of German `Political Theology' in the Nazi Era	87	(43)
Law and Theology: On the Status of German Jewry at the Outset of the Third Reich (1933/34)	130	(41)
Religious and Anti-religious Roots of Modern Anti-Semitism	171	(20)
On Modern Lutheranism and the Jews	191	(13)
Jewish and Universal Social Ethics in the Life and Thought of Albert Einstein	204	(19)
Index	223