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The Impact of Nazism on German Rabbinics Scholarship: A Response to Robert P. Ericksen

The Impact of Nazism on German Rabbinics Scholarship: A Response to Robert P. Ericksen © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2010 Review of Rabbinic Judaism 13.1 Also available online – brill.nl/rrj DOI: 10.1163/157007010X502408 THE IMPACT OF NAZISM ON GERMAN RABBINICS SCHOLARSHIP: A RESPONSE TO ROBERT P. ERICKSEN Susannah Heschel Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA susannah.heschel@darmouth.edu Keywords Aryan Jesus, church in Nazi Germany, anti-semitism I would like to thank my colleague Robert Ericksen for his thoughtful and generous review of my book and for his important leadership in the study of the churches during the Third Reich. While still a graduate student, I read his 1987 breakthrough book, Theologians Under Hitler , and I was riveted. I was studying at the time in Berlin, writing a disserta- tion on the Jewish historian Abraham Geiger, and I was thrilled that a historian was at last engaging in a serious investigation of the Nazi politics of three of the most prominent German Protestant theologians of the twentieth century, Gerhard Kittel, Paul Althaus, and Emanuel Hirsch. Ericksen carefully presented the writings of each man, starting from the period of the Weimar Republic, and demonstrated how each corrupted his work with antisemitism and support for the Nazi regime. Ever since the end of World War II, hundreds http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Review of Rabbinic Judaism Brill

The Impact of Nazism on German Rabbinics Scholarship: A Response to Robert P. Ericksen

Heschel, Susannah
Review of Rabbinic Judaism , Volume 13 (1): 76 – Jan 1, 2010
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2010 Review of Rabbinic Judaism 13.1 Also available online – brill.nl/rrj DOI: 10.1163/157007010X502408 THE IMPACT OF NAZISM ON GERMAN RABBINICS SCHOLARSHIP: A RESPONSE TO ROBERT P. ERICKSEN Susannah Heschel Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA susannah.heschel@darmouth.edu Keywords Aryan Jesus, church in Nazi Germany, anti-semitism I would like to thank my colleague Robert Ericksen for his thoughtful and generous review of my book and for his important leadership in the study of the churches during the Third Reich. While still a graduate student, I read his 1987 breakthrough book, Theologians Under Hitler , and I was riveted. I was studying at the time in Berlin, writing a disserta- tion on the Jewish historian Abraham Geiger, and I was thrilled that a historian was at last engaging in a serious investigation of the Nazi politics of three of the most prominent German Protestant theologians of the twentieth century, Gerhard Kittel, Paul Althaus, and Emanuel Hirsch. Ericksen carefully presented the writings of each man, starting from the period of the Weimar Republic, and demonstrated how each corrupted his work with antisemitism and support for the Nazi regime. Ever since the end of World War II, hundreds

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Published: Jan 1, 2010

Keywords: church in Nazi Germany; Aryan Jesus; anti-semitism

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