Bernard M. Levinson serves as Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies and of Law at the University of Minnesota, where he holds the Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible. He is the author of four books, including Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation and Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel, and six edited volumes.

Robert P. Ericksen is the Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies Emeritus at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. He has written or edited six books, including Theologians under Hitler, Complicity in the Holocaust: Churches and Universities in Nazi Germany, and (edited with Susannah Heschel) Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust.

List of Contributors

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List of Abbreviations

Preface

I. Nazi Germany and the Historical Humanities

1. The History of the Humanities in the Third Reich, by Alan E. Steinweis

2. The "Orient" and "Us", by Suzanne L. Marchand

3. Luther Scholars, Jews, and Judaism during the Third Reich, by Christopher J. Probst

4. Gerhard von Rad's Struggle against the Nazification of the Old Testament, by Bernard M. Levinson

5. Jewish Studies in the Service of Nazi Ideology, by Anders Gerdmar

6. Hermann Grapow, Egyptology, and National Socialist Initiatives for the Humanities, by Thomas Schneider

7. German Assyriology, by Johannes Renger

8. National Socialist Archaeology as a Faustian Bargain, by Bettina Arnold

II. Law, Music, and Philosophy in the Third Reich

9. Hitler's Willing Law Professors, by Oren Gross

10. The Music of Arnold Schoenberg, by Michael Cherlin

11. Political Philosophy, by Emmanuel Faye

III. Nazi Germany and Beyond

12. The Nazification and Denazification of the University of Göttingen, by Robert P. Ericksen

13. The University of Göttingen and Its Postwar Response to Persecuted Colleagues, by Aniko Szabo

14. Italian Fascism, by Franklin Hugh Adler

15. Is There an Anti-Jewish Bias in Today's University?, by Alvin H. Rosenfeld

Index of Scholars and Related Academic Figures Examined

Index of Paramilitary and Military Roles Held

Index of Universities and Academic Institutions Examined

Index of Authors

Subject Index