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The Nazi Ancestral Proof
How could Germans, inhabitants of the most scientifically advanced nation in the world in the early 20th century, have espoused the inherently unscientific racist doctrines put forward by the Nazi leadership? Eric Ehrenreich traces the widespread acceptance of Nazi policies requiring German individuals to prove their Aryan ancestry to the popularity of ideas about eugenics and racial science that were advanced in the late Imperial and Weimar periods by practitioners of genealogy and eugenics. After the enactment of Nazi racial laws in the 1930s, the Reich Genealogical Authority, employing professional genealogists, became the providers and arbiters of the ancestral proof. This is the first detailed study of the operation of the ancestral proof in the Third Reich and the link between Nazi racism and earlier German genealogical practices. The widespread acceptance of this racist ideology by ordinary Germans helped create the conditions for the Final Solution.
German Jewry
This history of post-Emancipation German Jewry and of the Holocaust aftermath has received considerable scholarly attention. The study of Jewish life in Germany in the 1930s and the migration impelled by the Nazi period has, on the other hand, been comparatively neglected. The work of Werner J. Cahnman (1902-1980) goes a long way toward filling this gap.Cahnman's examination of "the Jewish people that dwells among the nations" is focused on Germany because it was the country "where in modern times the symbiosis . . . has been most intimate and it also has been the country where the conflict degenerated into the monstrosity of the Holocaust." This representative anthology of his essays shares...
Genealogie in der Moderne
Der Band knüpft an das wissenshistorisch und praxeologisch orientierte Interesse an Genealogie an, wie es vor allem in der Geschichte der Vormoderne der letzten Jahre formuliert wurde. Dabei wird in den Blick genommen, wie sich im Bereich der Genealogie die Verschränkung und gegenseitige Beeinflussung wissenschaftlicher und populärer Praktiken, etwa in Vereinen, auswirkte. Genealogische Forschungspraxis wurde zudem als Wissensfeld in historischen, sozialwissenschaftlichen, naturwissenschaftlichen und medizinischen Fächern genutzt. Wie zirkulierte genealogisches Wissen zwischen Vereinen, Universitäten, religiösen und staatlichen Behörden und Archiven seit dem 19. Jahrhundert, und für welche gesellschaftlichen Ordnungsvorstellungen wurde es verwendet? Wie dynamisieren der Medienwandel und Strategien des Open Access in Archiven die Produktion von Genealogien? Mit Beiträgen von Bertram Fink, Manfred Gailus, Bernd Gausemeier, Michael Hecht, Katrin Heil, Amos Kuster, Daniel Menning, Niklas Regenbrecht, Jan Ripke, Nicolas Rügge, Jan Ruhkopf, Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt, Marianne Sommer, Elisabeth Timm, Fiona Vicent.
Buying Respectability
In 19th-century Leipzig, Toronto, New York, and Boston, a newly emergent group of industrialists and entrepreneurs entered into competition with older established elite groups for social recognition as well as cultural and political leadership. The competition was played out on the field of philanthropy, with the North American community gathering ideas from Europe about the establishment of cultural and public institutions. For example, to secure financing for their new museum, the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art organized its membership and fundraising on the model of German art museums. The process of cultural borrowing and intercultural transfer shaped urban landscapes with the building of new libraries, museums, and social housing projects. An important contribution to the relatively new field of transnational history, this book establishes philanthropy as a prime example of the conversion of economic resources into social and cultural capital.
