The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany, Susannah Heschel (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008), xvii + 339 pp., 29.95
This fascinating and often disturbing book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Nazi-era Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Church Life. Established in 1939 by radical German-Christians, the Institute sought to make the Church a full partner in the Nazi c...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2009
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 23, Issue: 3, Pages: 478-480 |
| Review of: | The Aryan Jesus (Princeton, NJ [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press, 2008) (Diephouse, David J.)
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| Summary: | This fascinating and often disturbing book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Nazi-era Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Church Life. Established in 1939 by radical German-Christians, the Institute sought to make the Church a full partner in the Nazi crusade against Jewry. Its goal was a “Germanic” Christianity closed to “non-Aryans” and cleansed of all “Jewish influence.” Its chosen means included faux-scholarly conferences and publications, workshops, public lectures, and a variety of devotional materials. The latter included a “de-Judaized” redaction of the New Testament; the Old Testament was simply rejected out of hand. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcp044 |