Harry Legg
Biographic Data
| ID | 4228669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harry Legg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harry |
| FAMILY NAME | Legg |
| SIGNATURE | LEGG H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1457-1552 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Problem of Inconsistencies
I Hid for Days in the Basement
What happens when someone ignorant of their Jewish heritage uncovers the truth in dramatic circumstances? This article focuses on and advocates for further analysis of an unstudied discrete phenomenon: ‘the moment of discovery’ in early twentieth century Germany and Austria. The article's four empirical sections analyse various facets of this moment: the clues which pointed towards the Jewish ancestral secret, missed by many non-Jewish ‘Jews’; th…
The Nazis and the “Racial Jew
At the infamous Wannsee conference of 1942, one of the Holocaust’s chief architects, Reinhard Heydrich, complained to those present that the eleven million figure denoting “the Jewish population of
A Plea for Commemorative Equality
This article argues that there exists an undesirable link between the factual specificity of the Holocaust and its commemorative prioritization. Following a discussion of the rise of the Holocaust to the moral pinnacle of global memory culture, two primary examples of the enduring nature of this problematic link are advanced. In the first place, the importance afforded to factual specificity functions as an obstacle to the betterment of Eastern E…
Non-Jewish ‘Full Jews’
The 1935 Nuremberg laws labeled individual Germans as ‘full racial Jews’ if they possessed a minimum of three grandparents who had ever been members of a Jewish congregation. This ‘group’ was chosen for discrimination and the self-identification of its members was ignored. Outside the realm of Nazi fantasies, the nonracial reality of ‘Jewishness’ had seen many Jews leave behind secular and religious Jewish identities, as well as interaction with …
A Plea for Commemorative Equality
This article argues that there exists an undesirable link between the factual specificity of the Holocaust and its commemorative prioritization. Following a discussion of the rise of the Holocaust to the moral pinnacle of global memory culture, two primary examples of the enduring nature of this problematic link are advanced. In the first place, the importance afforded to factual specificity functions as an obstacle to the betterment of Eastern E…
Non-Jewish ‘Full Jews’
The 1935 Nuremberg laws labeled individual Germans as ‘full racial Jews’ if they possessed a minimum of three grandparents who had ever been members of a Jewish congregation. This ‘group’ was chosen for discrimination and the self-identification of its members was ignored. Outside the realm of Nazi fantasies, the nonracial reality of ‘Jewishness’ had seen many Jews leave behind secular and religious Jewish identities, as well as interaction with …
Non-Jewish ‘Full Jews’
The 1935 Nuremberg laws labeled individual Germans as ‘full racial Jews’ if they possessed a minimum of three grandparents who had ever been members of a Jewish congregation. This ‘group’ was chosen for discrimination and the self-identification of its members was ignored. Outside the realm of Nazi fantasies, the nonracial reality of ‘Jewishness’ had seen many Jews leave behind secular and religious Jewish identities, as well as interaction with …
A Plea for Commemorative Equality
This article argues that there exists an undesirable link between the factual specificity of the Holocaust and its commemorative prioritization. Following a discussion of the rise of the Holocaust to the moral pinnacle of global memory culture, two primary examples of the enduring nature of this problematic link are advanced. In the first place, the importance afforded to factual specificity functions as an obstacle to the betterment of Eastern E…
The Problem of Inconsistencies
I Hid for Days in the Basement
What happens when someone ignorant of their Jewish heritage uncovers the truth in dramatic circumstances? This article focuses on and advocates for further analysis of an unstudied discrete phenomenon: ‘the moment of discovery’ in early twentieth century Germany and Austria. The article's four empirical sections analyse various facets of this moment: the clues which pointed towards the Jewish ancestral secret, missed by many non-Jewish ‘Jews’; th…
The Nazis and the “Racial Jew
At the infamous Wannsee conference of 1942, one of the Holocaust’s chief architects, Reinhard Heydrich, complained to those present that the eleven million figure denoting “the Jewish population of
Archaeology (3 works) · European history and politics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · The Holocaust (3 works) · German (2 works) · German History and Society (2 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (2 works) · Judaism (2 works)