An Institution of Nazi Statesmanship

Friedrich Pollock's Theoretical Contribution to the Study of Anti-Semitism

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ID4070978
AuthorsPhilipp Lenhard (0000-0002-4294-8858, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume43
Issue1
Pages195-214
Publication date2016-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew German Critique (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/0094033x-3329259
OpenAlexW2308277745
LanguageEN
References cited17

This text is Friedrich Pollock's typescript of a public lecture he delivered at the luncheon session of the National Annual Meeting of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, on April 29, 1944, in Washington, DC. In his lecture Pollock lays out a new concept of a political anti-Semitism that he distinguishes not only from premodern Christian anti-Judaism but also from nineteenth-century racialist discourse. Under National Socialism, anti-Semitism was transformed from an attitude, based on personal convictions, to an "institution of Nazi statesmanship." For Pollock, anti-Semitic ideology appears to be initially a liberal phenomenon, an expression of a "false consciousness," while in Nazi Germany the extermination of the Jews became a political institution, a pillar of the state

Art · Art history · Ideology · Institution · Judaism · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Pollock · State (computer science) · Theology · European history and politics · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity · Religious studies

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