The centrality of antisemitism in Nazi Ideology

Prof. Otto Dov Kulka

The main principles of Nazi ideology were interlinked with an extremely hostile and negative perception of the Jews. In this step, Prof. Otto Dov Kulka, one of the leading researchers on Nazi antisemitism, will present a short paper on the centrality of antisemitism in Nazi ideology and its unique redemptive nature.

What is Redemptive Antisemitism?

References

• Aly, Götz , Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2014).

• Bachrach, Walter Zvi, “Antisemitism and Racism in Nazi Ideology,” in Michael Berenbaum, ed., The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998), pp. 64 – 74.

• Friedländer, Saul, Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939 (New York: Harper Collins, 1997).

• Kulka, Otto Dov, “Critique of Judaism in European Thought: On the Historical Meaning of Modern Antisemitism”, The Jerusalem Quarterly, vol. 52 (1989), pp. 127 – 129.

• Kulka, Otto Dov and Eberhard Jäckel, The Jews in the Secret Nazi Reports on Popular Opinion in Germany, 1933-1945 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010) .